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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



  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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