From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754094AbbCYSqY (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:46:24 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:49110 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753621AbbCYSqW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:46:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:46:20 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Brooks, Adam J" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "axboe@kernel.dk" , Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [Linux-nvdimm] another pmem variant Message-ID: <20150325184620.GA4057@lst.de> References: <1427299449-26722-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <8922EB9A36049040806AD0C06C26CAAF451100CC@fmsmsx117.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8922EB9A36049040806AD0C06C26CAAF451100CC@fmsmsx117.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Adam, we're all well aware of the deficits of the current interface, but for now that's all we have, and due to lead times in implementing bioses it will be all we have for quite a while. We're all eagerly looking forward to better interfaces and bioses that will support them. But for now evryone would love to just be able to use existing systems with an out of the box Linux kernel.