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SubjectRe: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?
Hi!

> > because of lacking memory,
> > we need binfmt like XIP(eXecution In Place).
> > but, it's seems not to be exists. :(
>
> The ucLinux people at least at one point had XIP working. I believe some of
> the linuxce people looked at it too. It isnt conceptually hard. The ramdisk
> effectively does what you need which is to add the ROM data (suitably aligned)
> to the page cache and then lock it. For 2.4 ramfs might be a better prototype

I believe linuxce has XIP working for some hardware.
Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org

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