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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)
On 03/10/2015 07:11 AM, joeyli wrote:
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> Per my understand...
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> 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.
>
> I wonder what kind of EFI_MEMORY_TYPE reported by UEFI BIOS on those "shipped
> NvDIMMs motherboards", like supermicro X9DRH-iF-NV. Then we may need add code
> to setup_e820() for mapping the efi memory type to e820 type 12 region.
>

Thanks Joey. This is tremendous help. (Just saved me days of research)

Our DDR4 NvDIMM chips arrive this week I will try and debug all this, also
booting EFI.

If you have any chance to experiments in your lab, and compare notes it
would be great.

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> Thanks a lot!
> Joey Lee
>

Thanks
Boaz



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