Re: Using video memory as system memory

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 06:28:56 EST

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On 10 April 2002 13:53, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> Yeah. In fact in some responses the 'slow speed' consideration was so much
> that they all say I'd be better off writing a block driver and making use
> of the memory more as a swap device rather than as system RAM.
>
> Has anyone out there done this yet? I figure I'd ask before reinventing
> anything.. :)

I use google to search for Linux projects. Believe me: that is
*much* faster than asking on a mailing list.

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