You 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 o

You 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.