FW: using videocard-memory as a filesystem
van Heusden, Folkert (Folkertvan.Heusden@wang.com)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:06:45 +0200
> 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 :-/
>
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