I have seen several utilities that do this for DOS (cringe!) and
actually load device drivers in that memory space... but I havn't
wandered across one for linux.  I imagine that it could probably be done
though with some driver re-rewrites .. or even make a device for it and
use it like a ramdisk (highly swank)... The problem with it is that it
will have slow access compared to standard ram, since it has to wander
across a slow pci or agp bus, and if you ever want to enter a graphics
mode, you will have to completely remove that segment from use.

SyZ



sinck@owmyeye.ugive.com wrote:
> 
> Is it possible, given the increasing video ram being slapped in video
> cards these days to utilize unused vram as system ram?  For instance,
> if you're running in 80x24 text, and have a 16M or 32M board, to be
> able to hijack the memory for another lump of memory?  Or maybe use it
> as 'fast swap'?
> 
> This is more of a curiosity question that an actual desire to *do*
> it.
> 
> David
> 
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