Re: [CFT] initramfs patch

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:27:48 +0100

ebiederm@xmission.com said:
> The current mtd drivers allow exactly this. Having a filesystem on
> your flash or rom device. I don't think any filesystem that runs on
> top of them currently supports XIP but the basic infrastructure is
> there.

Not quite. Hacking romfs to do XIP is trivial but only once we've
implemented the other part of the plan, which is to make MTD drivers
capable of exporting a new mmzone with their own pages in, for xip-romfs to
insert into the page cache.

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dwmw2




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