Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jul 2021 08:39:41 +0200 | From | Geert Stappers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/17] Rust support, NVMe |
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 01:58:32AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 10:56:57PM +0200, Finn Behrens wrote: > > There is a more general use driver (network dummy) still in the > > making, It is fully operational, just the documentation of the rust > > bindings are not finished yet, so it is not merged into the rust > > tree yet, also I have to rebase it. > > Why are you so resistant to writing a real driver that deals with actual hardware?
} Why are we so resistant to writing a real driver that deals with actual hardware?
It is not dodging hardware, it is universal available.
> A simple NVMe driver is less than a thousand lines of C. > I know the one in the kernel now is ridiculously complicated and has > been thoroughly messed up with abstractions to support NVMeoF instead > of having a separate driver, but it's really a simple interface at heart.
Summary of https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/nvme.html
NVMe hardware is universal available.
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