ramzswap

Yesterday I tested ramzswap on rx1950 :)

Shortly, it allows to use part of RAM as compressed swap. With ramzswap rx1950 is able to boot GPE environment (Xfbdev + gtk) without swap file on sd card, however GPE doesn't work smoothly.

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