Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> A guy here has done a driver to use AWE32 sound card memory as a block
> device, so you can use it as swap.
>
> http://helllabs.org/~claudio/awebd/awe_ram.c (the driver is for kernel
> 2.3.43)
But this driver looks like a floppy disk would be faster (reading and
copying the memory bytewise from the card) ;-)))
Reto
>
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> > I have the following cards installed in my computer:
> >
> > Cirrus Logic 5446 2Mb
> > Monster Voodoo 4Mb
> > Matrox M3D
> >
> > While in linux I only have a use for the Cirrus card. Has anyone
> > developed drivers to use the memory on either of the other two
> > cards, as swap space? I've read about this topic before but
> > didn't have any use for it at the time...
> >
> > IMHO, 4Mb of swap on the video card will likely be much faster
> > than going to disk.. even if it is only 4Mb.. I don't know how
> > much memory the M3D has... anyone know? Doesn't appear to have
> > any by looking at it..
>
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