Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

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?

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