Re: Accessing > 256MB RAM on O2

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:15:55 +0000 (GMT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips
Message-ID	<alpine.NEB.2.00.0903101012010.1500@localhost>

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Is there any sense in providing a slightly more MI interface for
> 	this? I'm thinking about some of the other ports which have
> 	some fast RAM and some much slower like atari and amiga, and
> 	maybe even x86 boxes used as servers which sometimes end up
> 	with large RAM (512M) video cards... :)

 	Actually... continuing on the 'not entirely practical' route...
 	You can pick up 256MB PCI graphics cards for under £30 nowdays.
 	http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290295456878
 	Given how expensive RAM is for some (non x86) systems, it could
 	almost be worth it to use them as fast swap... (I *said* it was
 	 'not entirely practical' :)

-- 
 		David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --