Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:43:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver |
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:39 +0200, 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 > > Any particular reason why this is done as a separate block device driver > rather than as SCSI?
Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore.
With kind regards,
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