Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:25:34 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: Vramfs: filesystem driver to utilize extra RAM on VGA devices |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Also, MTD allows you to map *part* of the VRAM. On my laptop, I only > map 56 MB out of the 64 MB of VRAM, which still allows me to use the > VGA normally. And BTW, I map this VRAM as a fast swap memory. > > In fact, I see little use to the VRAMFS for the average user. Still > it might have been a nice coding exercice for Jonathan. >
Also, the idea of using the DMA engine on the video card rather than just doing PIO references is an excellent one.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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