Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:07:23 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 00/12] use nonblock mmc requests to minimize latency |
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On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Per Forlin wrote:
> On 2 July 2011 21:37, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > On Saturday 02 July 2011 14:29:38 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > >> One other thing to be considered here is whether this idea should be > >> limited to just MMC or whether it should be extended further, to > >> move the DMA mapping stuff out of the hot path for other block devices > >> too. > >> > >> There are ARM systems with SATA which do 28MB/s - which could be > >> improved by this technique. > > > > Excellent point. We had discussed SATA items in the context of Linaro > > work before, and the conclusion was always that we wouldn't need to > > do any work for it in the common code. I'll make sure that we bring > > it up at the meeting next month in Cambridge so we can officially > > assign someone to do this. > > > Arnd, do you know if any of the Linaro boards have SATA?
The latest i.mx53 boards have SATA.
Nicolas
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