Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently

Bradley D. LaRonde (brad@ltc.com)
Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:06:29 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Thomas Capricelli" <orzel@kde.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently

> orzel@kde.org said:
> > Does it mean that NONE of the existing embedded linux is able to use
> > a ROM directly as a filesystem ?? (either root fs or not)
>
> Out of the box, no. XIP isn't that interesting. Most boxes have flash, and
> flash is more expensive than RAM

Dollar-wise, but not power-wise.

Regards,
Brad

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