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List:       netbsd-users
Subject:    Re: Support for Intel P3500 PCIe SSD drive
From:       Fredrik Pettai <pettai () nordu ! net>
Date:       2016-05-01 12:25:02
Message-ID: AEB21974-C734-4FF0-93E9-692A0424C65A () nordu ! net
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> On 29 Jan 2016, at 05:07, Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com> wrote:
> 
> On January 28, 2016 9:45:22 PM EST, Gary Duzan <gary@duzan.org> wrote:
> > In Message <alpine.NEB.2.11.1601281556410.26275@m83.parsec.com>,
> > Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs@gmail.com>wrote:
> > 
> > =>On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Derrick Lobo wrote:
> > =>> Trying this new toy and would to have support for it.. vendor
> > 0x8086 
> > =>> product 0x0953 (Flash mass storage, interface 0x02, revision 0x01)
> > at 
> > =>> pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> > =>
> > =>Personally, I've never seen these PCIe adapters work unless they
> > implement 
> > =>a standard SATA controller (and most don't). I know for certain-sure
> > that 
> > =>the OCZ Revo series will NOT work. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
> > 
> > Looks like that's an NVMe SSD, which requires an NVMe driver,
> > and I don't believe NetBSD has added one yet. It looks like -current
> > has the PCI id, but that's about it.
> > 
> > 				    Gary Duzan
> 
> Based on what I've heard about these, even if you happen to have one that can \
> emulate a standard SATA device doing so will seriously hamstring the performance. \
> It'd be pretty cool to have support for them, and *someone* keeps suggesting that I \
> take a stab at adding a NVMe driver :), but I just don't feel like I have the time. \
> I don't suppose there's anyone else out there that has taken a look at what it'd \
> take to support them?

Looks like nvme(4) just was added to amd64-current by nonaka@

/P=


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