Re: useful ram on voodoo(2) cards?

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:22:05 +0100


Hi!

>
> 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

It should be doable. I just think that there are cheaper ways how to
get 8Megs of ram than to buy voodoo card. (You know what? You send me
4Meg voodoo card and I'll send you 4Meg SIMM :-).

Pavel
PS: And no, it is not usable as real system ram : you have PCI in between.

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