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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:07:54PM +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> I've had a few beer long discussion with Joern Engel and David
> Woodhouse on this one. To cut a long discussion short: the current XIP
> infrastructure is not sufficient to be used on top of mtd. We'd need
> some extenstions:
> - on get_xip_page() we'd need to state if we want the reference
> read-only or read+write
> - we need a put_xip_page() to return references
> - and finally we need a callback for the referece, so that the mtd
> driver can ask to get its reference back (in order to unmap from
> userland when erasing a block)

And we'll need that even when using cramfs. There's not way we'd
merge a hack where the user has to specify a physical address on
the mount command line.

> While I fully agree, that a flash filesystem using xip would be very
> desireable, the proposed cramfs extension is a totaly different beast
> that has its own value to me: the ability to select per file whether
> xip or compression is more efficient.

You'd of course want all that for a full flash filesystem aswell.
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