[LinuxBIOS] using Graphics card ram as actual ram?

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Wed May 30 22:51:37 CEST 2007


On 5/30/07, RusH <citizenr at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Recently I saw a tour around Wilk Elektronik fab (Polish company,
> they own GoodRAM brand).
> http://www.egielda.com.pl/?str=art&id=2902&action=all (its in Polish,
> sadly no interesting pictures )
>
> There was one interesting thing - their testing lab. Currently they
> are using modded PC motherboards (Variable Voltage Regulator) to test
> modules (bad chip detection, performance).  At the end of the tour Lab
> monkey showed of his latest monster, test setup for hot swap module
> testing, the key point and main feature of this beast was using PCIE
> Video card memory for the main program memory.
>
> Currently LinuxBios is using CAR for ram. What about using Video card
> memory? is that feasible? Can you setup Video memory as stack?

Do you need execute option rom in that card, to initialize the setup Video?

DDR2?

YH




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