[patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Sat Jun 16 00:43:05 EST 2007


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,
 
Geert Uytterhoeven
Software Architect

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