LUN address is essentially how people used to address SCSI devices back
in the day we had these devices more in use. However, SCSI was taken as
an abstraction layer for many Unix and Unix-like systems, so it still
common to see LUN addresses in use. In Serenity, we don't really provide
such abstraction layer, and therefore until now, we didn't use LUNs too.
However (again), this changes, as we want to let users to address their
devices under SysFS easily. LUNs make sense in that regard, because they
can be easily adapted to different interfaces besides SCSI.
For example, for legacy ATA hard drive being connected to the first IDE
controller which was enumerated on the PCI bus, and then to the primary
channel as slave device, the LUN address would be 0:0:1.
To make this happen, we add unique ID number to each StorageController,
which increments by 1 for each new instance of StorageController. Then,
we adapt the ATA and NVMe devices to use these numbers and generate LUN
in the construction time.
This was a premature optimization from the early days of SerenityOS.
The eternal heap was a simple bump pointer allocator over a static
byte array. My original idea was to avoid heap fragmentation and improve
data locality, but both ideas were rooted in cargo culting, not data.
We would reserve 4 MiB at boot and only ended up using ~256 KiB, wasting
the rest.
This patch replaces all kmalloc_eternal() usage by regular kmalloc().
There's basically no real difference in software between a SATA harddisk
and IDE harddisk. The difference in the implementation is for the host
bus adapter protocol and registers layout.
Therefore, there's no point in putting a distinction in software to
these devices.
This change also greatly simplifies and removes stale APIs and removes
unnecessary parameters in constructor calls, which tighten things
further everywhere.
Now that the old PCI::Device was removed, we can complete the PCI
changes by making the PCI::DeviceController to be named PCI::Device.
Really the entire purpose and the distinction between the two was about
interrupts, but since this is no longer a problem, just rename it to
simplify things further.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
This new subsystem is somewhat replacing the IDE disk code we had with a
new flexible design.
StorageDevice is a generic class that represent a generic storage
device. It is meant that specific storage hardware will override the
interface. StorageController is a generic class that represent
a storage controller that can be found in a machine.
The IDEController class governs two IDEChannels. An IDEChannel is
responsible to manage the master & slave devices of the channel,
therefore an IDEChannel is an IRQHandler.
