Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:37:38 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Discard support (was Re: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed) |
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James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:19 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > >> James Bottomley wrote: >> >>> Heh, OS writers not having access to the devices is about par for the >>> current course. >>> >> .. >> >> Pity the Linux Foundation doesn't simply step in and supply hardware >> to us for new tech like this. Cheap for them, expensive for folks like me. >> > > Um, to give a developer a selection of manufacturers' SSDs at retail > prices, you're talking several thousand dollars ... in these lean > times, that would be two or three developers not getting travel > sponsorship per chosen SSD recipient. It's not a worthwhile tradeoff. > > The best the LF can likely do is try to explain to the manufacturers > that handing out samples at linux conferences (like plumbers) is in > their own interests. It can also manage the handout if necessary > through its HW lending library. >
Of install the hardware on a machine and give people access to the machine in time slots. Faster than FedEx-ing the hardware, and relatively fast to reinstall the OS from scratch. Testing of this type doesn't need huge bandwidth.
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