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From: "Mark Chambers" <markc@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: value of XIP?  and whether it works with 2.6 kernel?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:22:57 -0400
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>
>    as i read it from david w's post on the MTD list, XIP has limited
> value since flash is noticeably more expensive than RAM anyway.
>

The main value, I believe, is as part of a rapid boot setup - you can
avoid the decompress and copy phase.

Mark Chambers

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