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nvd driver man page.

Author: Jim Harris <jimharris@FreeBSD.org>

$FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/nvd.4 241431 2012-10-10 21:38:17Z jimharris $

.Dd October 10, 2012 .Dt NVD 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm nvd .Nd NVM Express disk driver .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: d -ragged -offset indent .Cd "device nvme" .Cd "device nvd" .Ed

p Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following lines in .Xr loader.conf 5 : d -literal -offset indent nvme_load="YES" nvd_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver exposes NVM Express (NVMe) namespaces as disks to the kernel disk storage API. It depends on the .Xr nvme 4 driver for notification of existing NVMe namespaces and submission of NVM I/O commands. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr nvme 4 , .Xr nvmecontrol 8 , .Xr disk 9 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was developed by Intel and originally written by .An Jim Harris Aq jimharris@FreeBSD.org , with contributions from Joe Golio at EMC.

p This man page was written by .An Jim Harris Aq jimharris@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS The .Nm driver is considered experimental. Development and testing have been primarily focused on amd64. The following areas of development and testing are in progress: l -bullet t testing on i386 t command timeout error handling .El