Re: Discard support (was Re: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swapslot is freed)

[Bill Davidsen]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 14:19 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>   
> > James Bottomley wrote:
> >     
> > > Heh, OS writers not having access to the devices is about par for the
> > > current course.
> > >       
> > ..
> >
> > Pity the Linux Foundation doesn't simply step in and supply hardware
> > to us for new tech like this.  Cheap for them, expensive for folks like me.
> >     
>
> Um, to give a developer a selection of manufacturers' SSDs at retail
> prices, you're talking several thousand dollars  ... in these lean
> times, that would be two or three developers not getting travel
> sponsorship per chosen SSD recipient.  It's not a worthwhile tradeoff.
>
> The best the LF can likely do is try to explain to the manufacturers
> that handing out samples at linux conferences (like plumbers) is in
> their own interests.  It can also manage the handout if necessary
> through its HW lending library.
>   

Of install the hardware on a machine and give people access to the 
machine in time slots. Faster than FedEx-ing the hardware, and 
relatively fast to reinstall the OS from scratch. Testing of this type 
doesn't need huge bandwidth.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc

"You are disgraced professional losers. And by the way, give us our money back."
   - Representative Earl Pomeroy,  Democrat of North Dakota
on the A.I.G. executives who were paid bonuses  after a federal bailout.


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