Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-10 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mar 10, 2015 1:12 AM, "joeyli" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:10:37PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > <> > > > > > > I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears. Modern > > > systems *don't have e820*. The BIOSes

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-10 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/10/2015 07:11 AM, joeyli wrote: <> > > Per my understand... > > With EFI Boot Stub, there have setup_e820() codes in > arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c > that used to transfer EFI memmap to e820 entries. Currently doesn't have any > EFI_MEMORY_TYPE reflects to NvDIMM that will map to

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-10 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/09/2015 05:17 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >>> [..] > It's not

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-10 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mar 10, 2015 1:12 AM, joeyli j...@suse.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:10:37PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears. Modern systems *don't have e820*. The BIOSes that are

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-10 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/09/2015 05:17 PM, Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andy Lutomirski l...@amacapital.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams dan.j.willi...@intel.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh b...@plexistor.com wrote: On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM,

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-10 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/10/2015 07:11 AM, joeyli wrote: Per my understand... With EFI Boot Stub, there have setup_e820() codes in arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c that used to transfer EFI memmap to e820 entries. Currently doesn't have any EFI_MEMORY_TYPE reflects to NvDIMM that will map to e820_type.

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread joeyli
Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:10:37PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > <> > > > > I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears. Modern > > systems *don't have e820*. The BIOSes that are using this type 12 > > hack are awful

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> [..] It's not "politics". Setting standards takes time and the platforms

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > [..] >>> It's not "politics". Setting standards takes time and the platforms >>> in question simply jumped the gun to enable a

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: [..] >> It's not "politics". Setting standards takes time and the platforms >> in question simply jumped the gun to enable a proof-of-concept. >> > > So ye, but once you have 100,000 devices out

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: <> > > I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears. Modern > systems *don't have e820*. The BIOSes that are using this type 12 > hack are awful throwbacks. So far the systems we have, with DDR4 NvDIMM(s) (Actual chips arriving soon)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> <> >> 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 >>

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Boaz Harrosh b...@plexistor.com wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears. Modern systems *don't have e820*. The BIOSes that are using this type 12 hack are awful throwbacks. So far the systems we have, with DDR4 NvDIMM(s) (Actual chips arriving soon) still

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andy Lutomirski l...@amacapital.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams dan.j.willi...@intel.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh b...@plexistor.com wrote: On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: [..] It's not politics.

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh b...@plexistor.com wrote: On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: [..] It's not politics. Setting standards takes time and the platforms in question simply jumped the gun to enable a proof-of-concept. So ye, but once you have 100,000 devices

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams dan.j.willi...@intel.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh b...@plexistor.com wrote: On 03/05/2015 10:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: [..] It's not politics. Setting standards takes time and the platforms in question simply jumped the

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-09 Thread joeyli
Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:10:37PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears. Modern systems *don't have e820*. The BIOSes that are using this type 12 hack are awful throwbacks. So far

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-05 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Boaz Harrosh 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

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-05 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Boaz Harrosh 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

[PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-05 Thread Boaz Harrosh
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.

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-05 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:24 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

Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-05 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Dan Williams dan.j.willi...@intel.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:24 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

[PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

2015-03-05 Thread Boaz Harrosh
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.