On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:48 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. > > 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. > > I Wish and call the ACPI comity to Define that NvDIMM is type-12. > Also for DDR4 > > In this patch I dynamically sprintf names into a static buffer > (max two unknown names) of the form "unknown-XXX" where XXX > is the type number. This is so we can return static string to > caller.
I prefer the other variant. For Pete's sake, people, defining new e820 types is ludicrous. It's already sort of happened for nvdimms (and I really hope that type 12 is on its way out), and if it every happens again, we can deal with it them. --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/
