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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:25:58 -0700
From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/26] cxl/core: Separate region mode from decoder mode
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Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2024, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:
> 
> >From: Navneet Singh <navneet.singh@intel.com>
> >
> >Until now region modes and decoder modes were equivalent in that they
> >were either PMEM or RAM.  With the upcoming addition of Dynamic Capacity
> >regions (which will represent an array of device regions [better named
> >partitions] the index of which could be different on different
> >interleaved devices), the mode of an endpoint decoder and a region will
> >no longer be equivalent.
> >
> >Define a new region mode enumeration and adjust the code for it.
> 
> Could this could also be picked up regardless of dcd?

It could be.  But there is no practical need for it without the addition of
DCD.  So I don't think it should be.

Ira