Re: Support for Intel P3500 PCIe SSD drive

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

> On 29 Jan 2016, at 05:07, Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On January 28, 2016 9:45:22 PM EST, Gary Duzan <gary%duzan.org@localhost> wrote:
>> In Message <alpine.NEB.2.11.1601281556410.26275%m83.parsec.com@localhost>,
>>  Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>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@

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