[jhallenworld]

Support for non-voltile memory needs to be added to Linux. For example, one should be able to map the non-volatile memory into user space and directly access it. There needs to be some BIOS-OS interaction so that the OS doesn't treat the non-volatile memory as general memory (for the likely case where only some of the memory is non-volatile). Alternatively, the non-volatile memory should be usable as a block device.

The non-volatile memory needs a layer of RAID-like volume management. For example, when you transfer the memory from one system to another, there should be a way to determine that the memory is inserted in the correct slots (remember there is RAID like interleaving/striping across memory modules).