Messages in this thread | | | From | "van Heusden, Folkert" <> | Subject | FW: using videocard-memory as a filesystem | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:06:45 +0200 |
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> 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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