Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945993AbXEAVyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 17:54:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946004AbXEAVyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 17:54:47 -0400 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([72.242.190.170]:43714 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945993AbXEAVyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 17:54:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4637B751.1080907@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:55:29 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-kernel Subject: Execute in place Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 May 2007 21:54:58.0932 (UTC) FILETIME=[5CAF9B40:01C78C3B] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.6.1039-15150.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--3.653400-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 11 I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that allowed one of the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly execute binaries out of the original rom memory rather than copying them to ram first, then executing from there. I was wondering if rootfs or tmpfs support such execute in place today, or if binaries executed from there have their code segments duplicated in ram? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/