Strange thoughts which I'd be grateful if someone could clear up for me:
a) is the 8/12Mb of ram on a voodoo/voodoo2 card read/write-able? [I'd
guess it should be writeable, given the card's function - but is it
readable?]
b) If the answer to a) is 'yes'. Would it be possible to write a driver
which provided a /dev/voodooram file and permitted people to do:
mkswap /dev/voodooram
swapon /dev/voodooram
[Such a driver would presumably have to prevent simultaneous access to the
card for graphics purposes or we would have some funky displays whilst the
machine hosed itself.]
And a subsidary question: given a), is this idea insufficiently ambitious
and could/should such RAM be usable as real system memory, not just fast
swap?
regards,
jb
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