Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support | | From | David Woodhouse <> | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2005 17:19:48 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:29 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote: > . This is also useful on embedded systems where the block device is > located on a flash chip.
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:33 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote: > Indeed that seems reasonable. There is no exact reason to have > this built into a kernel on a platform that does not have a bdev > for this.
The sanest way to use flash chips is not to pretend that they're a block device at all; rather to use a file system directly on top of them.
But although you _talk_ about block devices, your code does look like it should be usable even by flash file systems. I'll try to come up with a test case using it on flash.
-- dwmw2
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