Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:36:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/3] ps3: Disk Storage Driver |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jul 16 2007 18:15, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3: > > - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major > > - Disk names (and partitions) are of the format ps3d%c(%u) > > - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hypervisor > > doesn't support scatter-gather > > I wonder what virtualization has to do with a block device driver?
On the PS3, storage devices are virtualized by the hypervisor (yes, the PS3 runs all OSes under a hypervisor).
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