Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver |
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David Miller wrote: > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
>> Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore.
If you can access the firmware/hypervisor code, have that provide SCSI. Then the Linux driver piece is easy, obvious and flexible SCSI, and is not "fake."
> If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper > layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI > disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-)
The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there).
Jeff
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