Matthew
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, van Heusden, Folkert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > ---<skip this>----
> > I had this idea for a couple of months, but due to more
> > girlfriends then free-time, it's not likely I'll implement it
> > myself.
> > Background: in the 2.2/3.x kernels, there seems to be
> > the possibility to detach the console from the video-card
> > and use, for example, the serial port. If you do this, your
> > shiny 8MB matrox millenium will be sitting idle in your
> > pc doing nothing but wasting energy.
> >
> > ---<read this>---
> > The idea: create some driver that uses the RAM of the
> > video-card as a block-device! That way you can use the
> > fast-accessible videocard memory as a (for example)
> > swap-drive (will outperfrom any harddisk!) or a temporary-
> > file "disk" or whatsoever. Shouldn't be too difficult to
> > implement.
> >
> > Any questions/comments/etc.? Please please please
> > please send them CC to my wang-email address since
> > I'm not on this list :-/
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > Folkert van Heusden
> > Other e-mail addresses: f.v.heusden@ftr.nl, flok99@dds.nl
> > Mobile phone: +31-6-22390057
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> >
>
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