On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com> wrote: > > There are multiple vendors of DDR3 NvDIMMs out in the market today. > At various stages of development/production. It is estimated that > there are already more the 100ds of thousands chips sold to > testers and sites. > > All the BIOS vendors I know of, tagged these chips at e820 table > as type-12 memory. >
I have no problem with this patch. > Now the ACPI comity, as far as I know, did not yet define a > standard type for NvDIMM. Also, as far as I know any NvDIMM > standard will only be defined for DDR4. So DDR3 NvDIMM is > probably stuck with this none STD type. s/comity/committee? > > I Wish and call the ACPI comity to Define that NvDIMM is type-12. > Also for DDR4 > > In this patch I name type-12 "unknown-12". This is because of > ACPI politics that refuse to reserve type-12 as DDR3-NvDIMM > and members keep saying: > "What if ACPI assigns type-12 for something else in future" > > [And I say: Then just don't. Please?] Good luck :) --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
