Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?
Yong-iL Joh (tolkien@mizi.com)
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:20:33 +0900
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.
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Joh, Yong-iL
E-mail: tolkien@nownuri.net tolkien@mizi.com
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