From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:28:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:28:45 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:18160 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:28:42 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20010730140928.D20284@bluemug.com> To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Mike Touloumtzis , Jeff Garzik , Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [CFT] initramfs patch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:27:48 +0100 Message-ID: <17412.997489668@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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