xref: /linux/drivers/nvdimm/Kconfig (revision b94d5230d06eb930be82e67fb1a9a58271e78297)
1*b94d5230SDan Williamsconfig LIBNVDIMM
2*b94d5230SDan Williams	tristate "NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Memory Device) Support"
3*b94d5230SDan Williams	depends on PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
4*b94d5230SDan Williams	depends on BLK_DEV
5*b94d5230SDan Williams	help
6*b94d5230SDan Williams	  Generic support for non-volatile memory devices including
7*b94d5230SDan Williams	  ACPI-6-NFIT defined resources.  On platforms that define an
8*b94d5230SDan Williams	  NFIT, or otherwise can discover NVDIMM resources, a libnvdimm
9*b94d5230SDan Williams	  bus is registered to advertise PMEM (persistent memory)
10*b94d5230SDan Williams	  namespaces (/dev/pmemX) and BLK (sliding mmio window(s))
11*b94d5230SDan Williams	  namespaces (/dev/ndX). A PMEM namespace refers to a memory
12*b94d5230SDan Williams	  resource that may span multiple DIMMs and support DAX (see
13*b94d5230SDan Williams	  CONFIG_DAX).  A BLK namespace refers to an NVDIMM control
14*b94d5230SDan Williams	  region which exposes an mmio register set for windowed
15*b94d5230SDan Williams	  access mode to non-volatile memory.
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