Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking of using video memory as regular memory (When developping my
> > ViRGE driver, I got 24 MB doing nothing...) MAybe a nice KGI feature ?
> 
>         This should not be hard, actually.  Export your unused videomem in
> KGIcon using a kgi_mmio_region, and then 'mkswap' and 'swapon' the /proc
> mapperfile.  IIRC, all you need is a mmap()able file with no holes, which we
> have now.

The file must also either be a block device or a regular file.
Do proc entries count as regular files?

//Marcus
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