From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:17:14 -0700
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