Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-32,: Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?

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

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:27:48 +0200

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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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