From: david@lang.hm
To: Rick van Rein <rick@groengemak.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future Linux on Bistable Storage
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:02:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806020953420.28080@asgard.lang.hm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080602125904.GA15129@phantom.vanrein.org>
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Rick van Rein wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Future generations of Linux are likely to run on machines with non-volatile
> memories based on bistable technologies. This will save the energy of DRAM
> refresh cycles and avoid the mechanical problems related to hard disks. The
> result is probably a computer with no distinction between disk and RAM.
unless there has been a breakthrough that I haven't heard about (always
possible) I seriously doubt that this is the case.
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). niether one is appropriate for a large, flat
addressed memory architecture as you list below.
David Lang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 17:02 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 [this message]
2008-06-04 1:14 ` Jared Hulbert
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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