AoE for 4.x

[Julian Elischer]

you could look at the sbp driver that is part of the firewire code..
I think that may be the closest analog.


Sam wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> I think that if you have a working driver we can assign you a number.
>> I do have some questions however..
>>
>> this is AoE.. is it not possible at all to combne it with either the CAM
>> framework (such as the atapicam stuff) or the existing ATA stuff..
>> Don't take this the wrong way.. it's just a question..
>> CAM is being used to talk to drives over firewire, usb, ata, scsi, 
>> fibrechannel.
>> it would seem that to unify this would be something that we should 
>> look at..
>> Of course CAM itslef is showing its age in soem places and it could 
>> do with some work itself..
>
>
> It might be possible to plug into the CAM; I only briefly
> glanced at it and it didn't appear appropriate.  The ATA
> layer definitely isn't as parts of ATA don't make sense
> in this context (Read DMA, Read Multiple, eg) and AoE
> devices don't conform to the simple hardware probe/attach
> methodology (as I understand it).
>
> I would love to be proved wrong.  I'm always willing to
> try a new approach if it's demonstrably better.
>
> Sam