Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 04:46:01 EST


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, JÃrn 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 ;)

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dwmw2

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