On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:52:26PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >..
> >2) This chip includes target mode support. Very nice, well done!
> >I hope that standard AHCI eventually supports this nice feature!
> ..
>
> Speaking of which. Do we have a strategy as to how to implement/support
> the target side of target mode on controllers which can do it?
>
> The Marvell chips also have a target mode feature, and I'd like to add
> support for it soon-ish, but it's now clear how you would like it plumbed
> into libata.
>
> It's almost like a separate driver/subsystem, except that would be very
> silly.
I'm letting the SCSI folks do the heavy lifting, implementing SCSI
target mode -- an effort already quite well along.
We should be able to piggyback off of that work.
Jeff
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