Sunday, February 28, 2021

Re: Intel Turbo Memory in Thinkpad W500

On 2/28/21 9:00 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
> This is 6.9-beta/amd64 on a Thinkpad W500 (dmesg below).
>
> Taking out the unneeded stuff (I usually take out bluetooth,
> replace the wifi with Intel 7260 HMW etc), I also noticed this
> (see attachments). Taking it out, the difference in dmesg shows:
>
> -"Intel Turbo Memory" rev 0x11 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured
>
> Given that it's "not configured", I don't think I'm missing much
> (and the Thinkpad's memory doesn't seem any less "Turbo"),
> but does anyone know what it does in the Thinkpad? AFAIG,
> is was supposed to be a thing before 4G of RAM and SSDs
> were common ..

Wikipedia does have article about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Memory

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