Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:01:24 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CAM layer Message-ID: <200007241900.NAA17859@pluto.plutotech.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007231355290.54040-100000@beppo.feral.com> you wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > >> It seems Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> > Is there anybody working on getting the CAM layer a bit less >> > SCSI-specific in order to easily fold ATA under it so that we have a >> > common access method, which CAM should be? >> >> I've played a bit with having the ATAPI part use CAM, but the results >> was not encouraging, having ATA devices use CAM is a different animal >> and would probably require significant changes to CAM. > > What do you feel needs to change with FreeBSD's CAM implementation? It needs to be made less SCSI centric. e.g. cam/scsi/cam_xpt_scsi.c with cam/cam_xpt.c offering only common glue. It has been on my list of things to do for a long time, but I just haven't gotten around to it. I think that a large part of the CAM/ATA/ATAPI issue is that the barrier to entry for new subsystems is too high... Someone has to do the "split it out" work first. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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