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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Recoverable RAM disk
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 00:48:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209022348.g82NmNwY000237@darkstar.example.net> (raw)

Hi,

I know I brought up the subject of a recoverable RAM disk some time ago, (basically, a RAM disk that survives warm boots, and that can be made bootable itself), but this might actually be a good way to implement it...

This article:

http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html

demonstrates making a RAM disk using graphics card memory.

Now, the video ram would presumably survive a warm boot in most cases, so if we could implement this idea in kernel space, we could keep a kernel image and root filesystem in the last 12 Mb or so of graphics RAM, and warm boot very quickly.

John.

             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-02 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-02 23:48 jbradford [this message]
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2002-07-10 11:16 ` Recoverable RAM Disk jbradford
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2002-07-09 16:19 jbradford
2002-07-09 16:40 ` Chris Friesen
2002-07-09 17:24   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

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