Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:14:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM) |
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Boaz Harrosh <boaz@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 out there, then the dichotomy >> between standards-takes-time vs proof-of-concept, becomes politics. > > Ok. > > ...although, I have a question about this "100,000 devices" you quote. > What's not clear to me is how many platforms are shipping with > type-12. Certainly there are very many NVDIMMs on the market, but > which off-the-shelf systems can one obtain that include type-12 > support? Not that it would change the disposition of this patch, if > platforms are in the field they're "in the field!", just clarifying > that "100,000 devices" is NVDIMMs not type-12 platforms, right?
This is a type-12 platform:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRH-iF-NV.cfm
You can order one online, for example:
http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/11926/Supermicro+X9DRH-iF-NV-O+Server+Board+DP+Xeon+E5-2600+LGA2011+DDR3+SATA3+RAID+IPMI+GbE+PCIe+ATX+MBD-X9DRH-iF-NV
--Andy
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