linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:11:37 +0800
From:	joeyli <jlee@...e.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Roger C. Pao" <rcpao.enmotus@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] e820: Add the unknown-12 Memory type (DDR3-NvDIMM)

Hi, 

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:10:37PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 01:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> <>
> > 
> > I will be shocked if a standard of this form ever appears.  Modern
> > systems *don't have e820*.  The BIOSes that are using this type 12
> > hack are awful throwbacks.
> 
> So far the systems we have, with DDR4 NvDIMM(s) (Actual chips arriving soon)
> still have BIOS (On by default). The BIOS was yelled "Wolfe" for so long NOW ;-)
> Again these are working system in the field, who will switch them all to UEFI?
> 
> How will the UEFI present them to the system? can you point me to the relevant
> code? (Or did you mean BIOS but with a different communication path than e820?)
>

Per my understand...

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.

> > 
> > --Andy
> > 
> 
> Thanks
> Boaz
> 

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee
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