Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently

Bradley D. LaRonde (brad@ltc.com)
Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:12:39 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
Cc: "Thomas Capricelli" <orzel@kde.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently

> brad@ltc.com said:
> > 128 Mbit Intel StrataFlash.
>
> Oh - I thought those started returning status bits from all addresses when
> ever you were writing or erasing any part of them?

They do. On that system just the low-level flash write code was kept in
RAM, but the rest of the kernel was XIP from flash.

Regards,
Brad

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