Re: Support for Intel P3500 PCIe SSD drive

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

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?

Eric