Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:31:05 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support |
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On Wed, 1 June 2005 17:33:29 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 5/12/05, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > > In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd > > > abstraction fit your bill. But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs > > > could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction. > > > > > > Patching jffs2 for xip looks like a major effort, at best, and utterly > > > insane at worst. I'd prefer not to go down that path. > > > > You and me both. The time has definitely come to recognise that JFFS2 > > needs replacing ;) > > I'd say yaffs seems to be a good one.
Not if you care about XIP. Yaffs won't run on NOR flashes and XIP won't work on NAND.
Jörn
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