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To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting a in-ROM filesystem efficiently 
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brad@ltc.com said:
>  They do.  On that system just the low-level flash write code was kept
> in RAM, but the rest of the kernel was XIP from flash. 

Oh, right - so you run from RAM and disable interrupts while you're writing 
or erasing? That can work, but isn't an approach I really want to encourage :)



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