Author: scottph Date: Mon Sep 9 21:03:08 2019 New Revision: 352109 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352109
Log: MFC 351897: nvdimm(4): Add description of NVDIMM Namespace support Approved by: scottl (mentor) Sponsored by: Intel Corporation Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/nvdimm.4 Directory Properties: stable/12/ (props changed) Modified: stable/12/share/man/man4/nvdimm.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/12/share/man/man4/nvdimm.4 Mon Sep 9 20:49:37 2019 (r352108) +++ stable/12/share/man/man4/nvdimm.4 Mon Sep 9 21:03:08 2019 (r352109) @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 23, 2019 +.Dd September 5, 2019 .Dt NVDIMM 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ the device. .Pp Also, for each SPA, the geom provider .Pa spaNNN -is created, which can be used to create a conventional filesystem (e.g. +is created, which can be used to create a conventional filesystem (e.g., by .Xr newfs 8 ) and @@ -86,6 +86,18 @@ Content accessible by and .Pa /dev/spaNNN is coherent. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver has support for reading NVDIMM namespaces (if supported by your +hardware and already configured by some other mechanism, e.g., a BIOS +configuration screen). +The driver will provide a +.Pa /dev/nvdimm_spaNNNnsMMM +device node and +.Pa spaNNNnsMMM +geom provider for each namespace in a SPA, which behave analogously to their +full-SPA cousins described above. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ACPI 4 , .Xr GEOM 4 , _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
