Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755440AbYCOX60 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:58:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755060AbYCOX5x (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:57:53 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:40448 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753876AbYCOX5t (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:57:49 -0400 To: david@lang.hm Cc: Daniel Phillips , Willy Tarreau , Alan Cox , David Newall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803151417.13899.phillips@phunq.net> <20080315215427.GC13012@1wt.eu> <200803151533.10797.phillips@phunq.net> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:57:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Sat\, 15 Mar 2008 16\:22\:20 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 18 david@lang.hm writes: > dynamic ram needs a preocessor > running to access the ram continuously to refresh it. Actually modern DRAM can be put into "self refresh" mode which don't need (nor allow) any external accesses. Not very practical in typical PC case, though I think suspend to RAM uses it. Could be used for battery - backed RAID/disk controller as well. Obviously it changes nothing WRT ramback. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/