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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/17] Rust support, NVMe
    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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