When you plug a DIMM into your motherboard, the CPU can "see" all kinds of attributes about the stick:
- Clock rate
- CAS Latency
- Bank count
- Total size
- etc...
But I can't seem to figure out how this meta-information is exposed to the CPU. I don't see it in the DDR3 (or other DDR#) communication protocol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_dynamic_random-access_memory#Control_signals
How is this information exposed / discovered? Over what bus and according to what protocol?
