[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Help please: bug#625 SCSI disk conflicts with blkfront---best approach for fix?
Dan Smith wrote: Is there another benefit to having a low-level SCSI driver that I'm missing?~ For my own purposes, I'm planning on building a SCSI generic front- end/back-end driver pair to make SCSI disks available to domU's. This driver would be available to the Xen community. Since I'm not running Linux on the front-end, I hadn't thought much about the major device number problem. Instead, I've got an O/S that generates SCSI requests and I didn't want to have to work very hard to try to translate them to blk requests: SES commands, test unit ready, serial number requests, etc. In addition, our O/S uses scatter/gather lists extensively and I'd like to pass those along instead of buffering and copying data. I figured I'd just rely on the SCSI generic driver to send my already- generated requests over the SCSI adapter to the devices on the bus. Since I've never written a Xen driver before, my basic premise was to begin with a basic front-end talking to a back-end and adding functional components one at a time. And, documenting my work for others to read. Or, is there already good documentation somewhere on designing/building a front-end/back-end driver pair? -- Randy _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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