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From: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "Rick van Rein" <rick@groengemak.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future Linux on Bistable Storage
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 18:14:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6934efce0806031814s6c416261pa9285aee9ae547a9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806020953420.28080@asgard.lang.hm>

> the alternate technologies that I have heard about are either _far_ less
> dense then DRAM (similar to static ram) or require erasing in blocks
> (similar to flash).

I will agree with this.

> niether one is appropriate for a large, flat addressed
> memory architecture as you list below.

I don't agree with this one.   Erase blocks don't automatically
disqualify a memory as a fit into a flat addressed arch.   You need to
play games at the memory management layer to make it work, but it's
not impossible.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-02 12:59 Rick van Rein
2008-06-02 17:02 ` david
2008-06-04  1:14   ` Jared Hulbert [this message]
2008-06-02 19:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-02 20:04 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-02 21:10   ` Rick van Rein
2008-06-03  0:51     ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-03 14:27       ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-03 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-02 18:28 Daniel J Blueman

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