Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to pass-through SCSI commands

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Durrant writes ("RE: [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to 
pass-through SCSI commands"):
> Actually, that's quite desirable. The existing driver is actually a
> SCSI HBA driver (because that's all you can write is you use thr
> Windows STORPORT wrapper... which you need to if you want to pass
> WHQL) so making it use a PV scsi protocol would probably make it
> smaller since all the scsi <-> blkif translation code could be
> ripped out and all the stuff to synthesize INQUIRY responses based
> on vbd data in xenstore could go away too.

Do non-Linux hosts have something like LIO ?

Ian.

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