System and method for recognizing and configuring devices embedded on memory modules

A method for detecting device-enhanced memory modules in a system including a plurality memory modules comprising system memory, wherein one or more of the plurality of memory modules are device-enhanced memory modules each comprising one or more embedded devices, the method comprising:

• writing one or more data sequences including a last data sequence to each of a plurality of memory regions in the system memory;
• reading at least the last data sequence from each of the plurality of memory regions in the system memory;
• and
• identifying one or more of the plurality of memory modules as device-enhanced memory modules in response to said reading the at least the last data sequence from each of the plurality of memory regions in the system memory;
• wherein a first memory module of the plurality of memory modules is identified as a device-enhanced memory module if the at least the last data sequence read from a memory region on the first memory module is different than the at least the last data sequence as written to the memory region on the first memory module.

A system comprising:

• a plurality of memory modules comprising system memory, wherein at least one of the plurality of memory modules comprises one or more embedded devices;
• a device driver executable within the system to:
• write one or more data sequences including a last data sequence to each of a plurality of memory regions in the system memory;
• read at least the last data sequence from each of the plurality of memory regions in the system memory;
• identify one or more of the plurality of memory modules as device-enhanced memory modules in response to said reading the at least the last data sequence from each of the plurality of memory regions in the system memory;
• and
• wherein a first memory module of the plurality of memory modules is identified as a device-enhanced memory module if the at least the last data sequence read from a memory region on the first memory module is different than the at least the last data sequence as written to the memory region on the first memory module.

A carrier medium comprising program instructions for detecting device-enhanced memory modules in a system including one or more memory modules comprising system memory, wherein at least one of the one or more memory modules is a device-enhanced memory module comprising one or more embedded devices, wherein the program instructions are computer-executable to implement:

• writing a data sequence to a first memory module of the one or more memory modules in the system;
• reading the data sequence from the first memory module;
• identifying the first memory module as a device-enhanced memory module if the data sequence as read from the first memory module is modified from the data sequence as written to the first memory module;
• and
• identifying the first memory module as not being a device-enhanced memory module if the data sequence read from the first memory module is the same as the data sequence as written to the first memory module.