Alan Cox wrote:
The spec describes the sector size as
"512, 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, etc." It will be interesting to reach
"etc" territory.
Over 4K will be fun.
- ahci.c becomes a tiny stub with a pci_device_id match table,
calling functions in libahci.c.
It needs to a be a little bit bigger because of the folks wanting to do
non PCI AHCI, so you need a little bit of PCI wrapping etc
True...
With a brand new command set, might as well avoid SCSI completely IMO,
and create a brand new block device.
Providing we allow for the (inevitable ;)) joys of NVHCI over SAS etc 8)
Perhaps... from what I can tell, this is a direct, asynchronous NVM
interface. It appears to lack any concept of bus or bus enumeration.
No worries about link up/down, storage device hotplug, etc. (you still
have PCI hotplug case, of course)
Jeff
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