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What OS support exists for this, and how does it work?
by rlpb 12y ago
What OS support exists for this, and how does it work?
- jpgvm 12y agoYou need not just OS support but specific motherboard too. Currently AFAIK this is only supported on SuperMicro dev kits.
- marcosdumay 12y agoWhat's the point of making it DDR3 DIMM compatible if they require a special motherboard to plug in?
- jpgvm 12y agoThe hope is that a standard will be created soon to support this behaviour. These sorts of things are complicated because it requires support of the chipset vendors. i.e Intel and AMD.
- bluedino 12y agoHow much real-world improvement is there using a DIMM slot instead of PCI-E bus?
- marcosdumay 12y agoStandard or not, making the sockets equal just add to the confusion. You best plug it into the right socket or your system won't even work. Using a different socket is best in all cases.
- Artemis2 12y agoWouldn't mounting the RAM stick as a ramdisk be enough though?
- NietTim 12y agoI don't think any current consumer (or enterprise for that matter) conventional motherboard has support for such a large stick. Plus I imagine that this stick will implement some different protocols/whatever to be able to be used directly as a drive
- rlpb 12y agoYou can't address a specific RAM stick, typically. Try and boot an OS without knowledge of this, and it'll start using the stick like it uses RAM. It'll take orders of magnitude longer to boot, to the point of impracticality, probably (I haven't calculated). The OS needs to understand the memory map, and at the minimum exclude use of the stick for "normal" operations. Then, it needs to expose the stick for access - preferably in a way that is more usable than /proc/mem.
- towelguy 12y agoMaybe mounting a tmpfs partition on it?