Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:03:00 -0800 | Subject | Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 0/2] e820: Fix handling of NvDIMM chips | From | Dan Williams <> |
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:15:32AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: >> In fact it was originally "type-6" until ACPI 5 claimed that number >> for official use, so these platforms, with early proof-of-concept >> nvdimm support, have already gone through one transition to a new >> number. They need to do the same once an official number for nvdimm >> support is published. >> >> Put another way, these early platforms are already using out-of-tree >> patches for nvdimm enabling. They can continue to do so, or switch to >> standard methods when the standard is published. > > Not supporting hardware that is widely avaiable (I have some, too) > is not very user friendly.
Yes, as I agreed with Ingo, allowing a driver to assume control of an unknown memory type with a warning or a kernel taint seems fine.
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