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To: Thomas Capricelli <orzel@kde.org>
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Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently 
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orzel@kde.org said:
>  Does it mean that NONE of the existing embedded linux is able to use
> a ROM  directly as a filesystem ?? (either root fs or not) 

Out of the box, no. XIP isn't that interesting. Most boxes have flash, and 
flash is more expensive than RAM - so compression is more useful than XIP 
in many cases. Obviously the two are mutually exclusive.

Writing to an XIP filesystem is fairly hard too.

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