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SubjectRe: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH v2 01/20] e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types
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On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
>
>> @@ -919,10 +920,31 @@ static inline const char *e820_type_to_string(int e820_type)
>> case E820_NVS: return "ACPI Non-volatile Storage";
>> case E820_UNUSABLE: return "Unusable memory";
>> case E820_PRAM: return "Persistent RAM";
>> + case E820_PMEM: return "Persistent I/O Memory";
>
> Minor nit, but nobody refers to this stuff as persistent I/O memory.
> I've heard it referred to as persistent memory or storage class memory.
> In the end, I doubt it matters.

Had we not polluted the waters with E820_PRAM I would have chosen
"Persistent Memory", but as we now need to support both I'd assume
they need different names.

> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>

Thanks Jeff.


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