On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 09:00:25PM +0100, 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 ...
>
> Jan
1-4GB of NAND flash on an option card.
There is an incomplete Linux reverse engineering effort, but it doesn't
look particularly all that interesting, and likely slower than an SSD by
today's standards.
https://github.com/yarrick/turbomem
-Bryan.
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