From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Draft NVDIMM proposal Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 15:19:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Dan Williams Cc: linux-nvdimm , Andrew Cooper , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Jan Beulich , Yi Zhang , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org T24gMDUvMTEvMjAxOCAwNTozMyBQTSwgRGFuIFdpbGxpYW1zIHdyb3RlOgo+IFsgYWRkaW5nIGxp bnV4LW52ZGltbSBdCj4gCj4gR3JlYXQgd3JpdGUgdXAhIFNvbWUgY29tbWVudHMgYmVsb3cuLi4K ClRoYW5rcyBmb3IgdGhlIHF1aWNrIHJlc3BvbnNlIQoKSXQgc2VlbXMgSSBzdGlsbCBoYXZlIHNv bWUgZnVuZGFtZW50YWwgbWlzY29uY2VwdGlvbnMgYWJvdXQgd2hhdCdzIGdvaW5nCm9uLCBzbyBJ J2QgYmV0dGVyIHN0YXJ0IHdpdGggdGhhdC4gOi0pCgpIZXJlJ3MgdGhlIHBhcnQgdGhhdCBJJ20g 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