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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: new incoming TS-7500
From: "janne.kario" <>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 13:03:45 -0000
--- In  "Jesse Off" <> wrote:

> There is no kernel module or compiled in kernel driver at all on the TS-7500. 
> 
> The driver is implemented completely in userspace via the Linux NBD userspace 
> block driver interface.  The "sdctl" application now has a "--nbdserver" 
> option.  Now that we can do almost everything necessary in userspace (irqs, 
> DMA, and raw hw access), the only reason to implement anything in the kernel 
> is to get the last few percent of performance, which, if absolutely 
> necessary, can be more easily improved on by other means. 

Are you going to provide the same sdctl userspace application for the for 
TS-72xx and TS-7800 products as well? Can we have the root fs on SD card with 
this scheme?

j



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