From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Mike Touloumtzis <miket@bluemug.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT] initramfs patch
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:27:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17412.997489668@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1puahzjcn.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1puahzjcn.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010730153712.7347D-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> <20010730140928.D20284@bluemug.com>
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.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-11 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-30 6:05 [CFT] initramfs patch Alexander Viro
2001-07-30 16:25 ` Alon Ziv
2001-07-30 15:33 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-30 19:56 ` Anthony de Boer
2001-07-30 20:05 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-30 20:29 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-30 20:49 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-30 21:14 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-30 22:16 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-07-30 22:37 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-30 20:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-30 21:09 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-07-31 6:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-11 0:27 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-07-30 22:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-31 1:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-31 3:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-02 22:46 ` [CFT] initramfs patch (2.4.8-pre3) Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 20:49 ` Ken Moffat
2001-08-05 7:07 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-05 7:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-05 20:39 ` Ken Moffat
2001-08-05 20:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-06 20:16 ` Ken Moffat
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