Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933004AbXECLi6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 07:38:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933020AbXECLi5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 07:38:57 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.36]:2522 "EHLO smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933004AbXECLi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 07:38:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:38:22 +0200 From: Erik Mouw To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Phillip Susi , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: Execute in place Message-ID: <20070503113822.GA27404@gateway.home> References: <4637B751.1080907@cfl.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1522 Lines: 50 --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote: > > 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 ou= t of > > the original rom memory rather than copying them to ram first, then exe= cuting > > 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 dupl= icated > > in ram? >=20 > Only ext2 supports it today: see Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt IIRC JFFS2 also supports XIP. Erik --=20 They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGOcmu/PlVHJtIto0RAsjMAJ4l0TWxX8Bgd1tUU2AQt/1pJCJYkgCfWKQU JiftOAQKR9gB53BYS/xWXeM= =iZUy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU-- - 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/