Bug#931643: ITP: ipmctl -- utility for configuring and managing Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

* Package name    : ipmctl
  Version         : v01.00.00.3455
  Upstream Author : Intel
* URL             : https://github.com/intel/ipmctl
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : utility for configuring and managing Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules

ipmctl is a utility for configuring and managing Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules (PMM).
It supports functionality to:

    Discover PMMs on the platform.
    Provision the platform memory configuration.
    View and update the firmware on PMMs.
    Configure data-at-rest security on PMMs.
    Monitor PMM health.
    Track performance of PMMs.
    Debug and troubleshoot PMMs.

There's a library, a CLI tool, and a monitoring daemon.

This piece is for handling the hardware itself and is specific to Intel
NVDIMMs (Apache Pass and newer); you then use vendor-neutral ndctl to chop
the space into namespaces and configure block devices.