Using GPU's RAM as RAMDISK

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Published on 2014-06-08T23:38:19Z Indexed on 2014/06/09 3:42 UTC
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I want to use my GPU's ram as a ramdisk, following these instructions : http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Using_Graphics_Card_Memory_as_Swap

But when I input the " modprobe phram phram=VRAM,0xd8400000,124Mi " command, I get the following error : modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'phram': Input/output error

I use Ubuntu Studio 14.04.

Also, is there anyway I could use more than the 128M of prefetchable memory, my GPU has 1GB of ram, I would prefer to use "most" of it.

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