Intel Turbo Memory? (Or "Robson"?)

[Sunnz]

Is this hardware designed specifically for Windows Vista? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Memory

Undoubtedly many Linux users will use laptops, does anyone know if Linux utilises this technology? Does Linux even need it? If so does/will Ubuntu support it?

I have hear from Mac fanboys that Vista is currently the only OS that supports it.

Not that I have this kind of hardware in my laptop now, just wondering how things are going in Linux.

[3rdalbum]

I heard somewhere that the Linux kernel has the framework to support it, and has had this framework for a couple of versions. So all that's needed is an actual driver for whatever hardware drives this flash memory stuff - if any at all.

[opax]

hello!
could you explain how to activate the support of this extra memory!
because it might be cool to speed up the boot
or just to use as swap...

thanks

[theviewfromtheground]

I am thinking about getting a Lenovo x61s and have been evaluating if this is worth getting. It seems that the answer is probably no.

If I were to get this, I think I would use it as a swap device. Perhaps that goes against its stated goal of acting as a drive cache, but my memory utilization tends to be high because I must often run vmware and generally need gobs of memory around.

Plus, setting up multiple, prioritized swap partitions is (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/setting_up_swap.html#multiple_swap_areas). I don't have tons of time to maintain my system, so if I'm going to utilize it, I want it to be easy to deal with.

There is a Slackware thread (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/best-utilization-of-intel-turbo-memory-in-slack-609345/) about this.