At the very least, if it'd be a pain to intergrate the memory into the
normal memory pool, would it be possible to allocate it as additional
chunks of swap space?

Joshua Coombs

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Greg Gonnerman wrote:

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>
>
> I was really hoping one of the sages in this forum would
> comment on this. I've been wondering about the same
> thing too.
>
> I seem to remember this being brought up quite some
> time ago in another forum, and the idea was dismissed
> out of hand. I don't see any reason why audio and video
> ram couldn't be used for other purposes, but of course
> I'm really not that familiar with the system architecture.
>
> Anyone care to comment, speculate, guess, or give us
> the definitive answer?
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
> > Subject: Using Video/sound RAM
> > To: None <port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
> > From: None <daniele@ncssm.edu>
> > Date: 02/15/2001 19:27:19
> >
> > I saw a post on here earlier that suggested using the
> > video/ sound ram as a ramdisk, but I didn't see any
> > responses.  How hard would this be to implement, and
> > couldn't we use it as (very fast) swap space?  Seems
> > like the best use if you're not actually using the
> > sound/graphics.
> >
> > Evan Daniel
>
>
>
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