Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:20:33 +0900 | From | Yong-iL Joh <> | Subject | Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache? |
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:26:38AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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
The flat binary - the uClinux people called - is based on coff format. I don't know specs of coff. In source-view, it seems to be from a.out format.
IMHO the LinuxCE's XIP is kernel-XIP, not application & library XIP.
Because of large shared library we'll use, We want elf-based XIP binfmt. Perhaps I'll work for it, but can't see the way.
-- Joh, Yong-iL E-mail: tolkien@nownuri.net tolkien@mizi.com
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