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Comment by kimixa

14 hours ago

I remember this being a thing done a while back using linux's MTD/phram drivers - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM - not sure if that's still relevant though as I don't know how it'll interact with DRM and how it handles reserving some of the vram - the suggested limit using xorg.conf is probably pretty obsolete now.

That page also has a fuse filesystem implementation on top of opencl - https://github.com/Overv/vramfs - which may be more compatible.

Yeah, I used to map my 8 megabytes of video memory through the mtd back in the day, it helped build those .. you know .. X11 drivers .. ;)

Man, that brings back memories.