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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2012
Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Siamack Nemazie, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ngon Van Le, Fremont, CA (US);
Avalance Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of configuring a computer memory system includes receiving a request from customized software driver or a BIOS extension software or a customized legacy BIOS or a customized UEFI PMM extension software or a customized UEFI BIOS, scanning memory module sockets in response to the request, recognizing memory modules in the memory module sockets, the memory modules being made of, at least in part, persistent memory modules (PMMs), configuring the PMMs to be invisible to the OS, and storing the mapping information to a designated protected persistent memory area, and presenting the PMMs as a persistent block storage to the OS.