Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Power Managed memory base enabling

Pavel Machek
2007-03-26T12:48:46Z

Hi!

> It implements a convention on the 4 bytes of "Proximity Domain ID"
> within the SRAT memory affinity structure as defined in ACPI3.0a. If
> bit 31 is set, then the memory range represented by that PXM is assumed
> to be power managed. We are working on defining a "standard" for
> identifying such memory areas as power manageable and progress committee
> based.
...
> More will be done, but for now we would like to get this base enabling
> into the upstream kernel as an initial step.

I'm not sure if the hack above does not disqualify it from
mainstream...

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