From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Design Doc v2] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 08:46:15 -0600
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