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Created August 30, 2009 19:10
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video-card-swap
#!/bin/sh
# lspci -vvv -s 01:00.0
# 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
# [...]
# Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
# allowing 0x100000 (1MiB) for "other stuff", we specify the range
# as starting from 0xf8100000 and going for 0x3f00000 (63MiB).
echo Loading slram module...
modprobe slram map=VRAM,0xf8100000,+0x3f00000
echo Loading mtdchar/mtdblock modules...
modprobe mtdchar
modprobe mtdblock
echo Initializing swap...
mkswap /dev/mtdblock0
echo Activating swap...
swapon -p 100 /dev/mtdblock0
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