Messages in this thread | | | From | "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <> | Subject | RE: Swap Compression | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 20:21:29 -0700 |
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> From: Jörn Engel [mailto:joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de] > > On Wed, 7 May 2003 20:17:32 -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > > This reminds me of some howto I saw somewhere of someway to > > use the MTD drivers to access the unused video RAM and turn > > it into swap (maybe with blkmtd?) ... probably it can be done > > with that too. > > Jupp, if you know the physical address range of the RAM, it's a piece > of cake. Except that the slram option parsing is not user-friendly, > with me being an examplary user.
It should be ... I need to find some time to dig that howto and try to do it ...
> For memory above 4GB, things are harder. Basically you'd have to write > a new mtd driver that copies some of the highmem code. Maybe a day or > two plus testing.
Ok, right to the stack of 'would be nice to work on' stuff.
The "feeling" thing is going to be groovy to test - I guess some parallel kernel compiles would do - hmmm ... will think about it.
Thanks,
Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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