Using video memory on PS3 e.g. as SWAP?

[Marc Dietrich]

Am Sunday 29 July 2007 19:04 schrieb René Rebe:
> Hi all,
>
> looking at the PS3 as one of the few PowerPC workstation options the RAM
> is obviously quite limitted with just 256MB. I wonder if the 256MB of
> video memory can be mapped or at least be used as super-fast SWAP?

look here:
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8267

but the write speed is much slower than disk.

> Or are there news regarding accessing the video chip from Linux beside
> the unaccelerated frame-buffer?
>
> Regards,

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