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> I would expect something along these lines, although I'd be a little surprised if they bothered putting the NVMe bits down in silicon. You and Colin both kno
by kijiki 9y ago
> I would expect something along these lines, although I'd be a little surprised if they bothered putting the NVMe bits down in silicon.
You and Colin both know they bought Annapurna Labs, right?
We don't have to speculate _that_ much about what is probably going on here...
- cperciva 9y agoThat's why I said ARM for the EBS protocol handling rather than MIPS. :-) I guessed a hardware NVMe interface because that seems like something which could be acquired more or less off-the-shelf, thus minimizing the engineering risks.
- jsolson 9y agoI do, hence my speculation about putting the NVMe in firmware instead of hardware :) (Colin's speculation in a peer reply is also reasonable -- personally I've seen enough errata in "off the shelf" IP to shudder at the idea of anything in silicon that doesn't have to be, but fundamentally I'm a SWE, so that would be my take, wouldn't it)
- cperciva 9y agoThe way I see it, everything has errata... but if you're taking something off the shelf, it's more likely that someone else already found them. :-)