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 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?
Only ext2 supports it today: see Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/