Re: [Linux-nvdimm] another pmem variant

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:00:26AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> The kernel command line would simply be the standard/existing memmap=
> to reserve a memory range.  Then, when the platform device loads, it
> does a request_firmware() to inject a binary table that further carves
> memory into ranges to which the pmem driver attaches.  No need for the
> legacy system BIOS to be upgraded to the "new way".

Ewww...

> It does do the right thing in kernel space.  The userspace utility
> creates the binary table (once) that can be compiled into the platform
> device driver or auto-loaded by an initrd.  The problem with a new
> memmap= is that it is too coarse.  For example you can't do things
> like specify a pmem range per-NUMA node.

Sure you can as long as you know the layout.  memmap= can be specified
multiple times.   Again, I see absolutely zero benefit of doing crap
like request_firmware() to convert interface, and I'm also tired of
having this talk about code that will eventually be released and should
be superior (and from all that I can guess so far will actually be far
worse).