[OmniOS-discuss] NVMe PCIe SSD support?

[Valrhona]

Does anyone have any plans to make this driver work? Going forward,
NVMe SSDs  seem to be likely to grow in importance and prevalence, and
it seems like a good idea for Illumos to get this working, since
FreeBSD, Linux and Mac already support it.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 29, 2015, at 5:20 AM, Valrhona <valrhona at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just wondering if anyone has gotten a NVMe-based PCIe SSD working with OmniOS?
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> nvme would require its own driver.
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> There was an attempt made to bring one up for illumos, but it failed.  It would need to be a new device driver, and one that interfaced with the "blkdev" framework.  It would be not unlike the sTec S112x driver, but with NVME device logic.
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> Dan
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