TF TaskFile
FIS Frame Information Structure
TCQ erm ... obvious
FPDMA First Party Direct Memory Access
SATA erm ... obvious
SCSI erm ... obvious
Cheers
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:41:10PM +0200, Julien Oster wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> >
> > > A "phb" just makes me go "Whaa?"
> >
> > But people doing computer stuff *love* abbrevations. Ask any
> > non-kernel-developer (or non-kernel-interested) about ACPI, MSI, MSWR,
> > MTRR, APIC, IO-APIC, TSC, PTE or XT-PIC-IRQ and he will not only go
> > "Whaa?" but "WHAAAAHELP!" :-)
>
> In a message from 2nd of July, here on lkml, Andre Hedrick wrote
>
> <quote>
> I need to sit down with JG, AC, BZ, JA and work out a TF <> FIS lib
> for First Party DMA.
>
> I need to rip the SATA 1.0 out of drivers/ide/* ...
> ....
>
> Obviously TCQ in FPDMA via direct FIS will map to SCSI with less
> pain.
>
> I have FPDMA cores.
> </quote>
>
> In the first moment I started to wonder if this is a spoof; but
> after a while I decided that likely it is not. Still a translator
> could be handy or it is time to update V.E.R.A. :-)
>
> Michal
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