On 20 July 2016 at 01:49, Kwangwoo Lee <kwangwoo....@sk.com> wrote: > This patch series add an evaluation environment of NVDIMM on AArch64 > virt platform. Three parts need to be implemented to make this feature > working properly. > > 1. memory hotplug on arm virt platform > 2. configurable ACPI IO base and size both for i386 and arm platform > 3. enable NVDIMM on arm virt platform > > The memory hotplug is required to recognize DIMM type memory and this > is also used for NVDIMM device recognition. > > The ACPI IO base and size need to be changed on creating ACPI NFIT > because arm platform uses memory-mapped IO which is different from > i386 platform. Thus, this patch set includes the changes of setting > ACPI IO base and size during NVDIMM initialization. > > The last part enables NVDIMM on arm virt platform. The feature is > disabled by default. So explicit option - nvdimm=on - is required to > enable the feature.
Thanks for this patchset. Could you provide a brief summary of why this is interesting/useful for the benefit of people who don't know what an NVDIMM is, please? thanks -- PMM
