Storage device considerations

[Sebastian Sumpf]

Hi Markus,

On 09/19/2012 11:16 AM, Markus Partheymueller wrote:

> starting to discover the possibilities of using storage devices under
> genode, a few questions arised:
> 
> (1) AHCI is declared non-working on Fiasco.OC and NOVA. Is this
> planned to be resolved in the near future?

AHCI should work on Fiasco.OC and Nova by now, on bare metal one has to
use it in the same way as the USB driver by starting the 'acpi_drv'
server. Beware the driver is still in a very early stage and might break
things.

> (2) USB Storage is supporting only one device. Are there plans to extend this?

Not in the immediate future.

Greetings,

Sebastian

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