From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:53:02 -0500
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