From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using video memory as system memory
Date: 12 Apr 2002 01:54:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14rihl5cy.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204091816380.13516-100000@winds.org>
Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org> writes:
> I have an old 586 that has low memory and no ability for further upgrades.
> I had an idea to use the framebuffer memory of a 32MB video card lying around
> the office as system memory and implemented the following patch:
There are significant speed differences between video card ram
and ram on a PCI card.
Setup an mtd device and use the video card ram for swap. It's
about 10 lines more code, is testable as a module, and is code that
is clean enough some variant of it might even get into the kernel.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-12 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-09 22:24 Using video memory as system memory Byron Stanoszek
2002-04-10 15:00 ` bill davidsen
2002-04-11 14:23 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-12 10:56 ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-04-12 11:35 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-12 7:54 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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2002-04-10 15:43 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-04-10 15:53 ` Byron Stanoszek
2002-04-10 16:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-10 17:10 ` Bruce Harada
2002-04-12 11:54 ` Bruce Harada
2002-04-11 11:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
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