Am Montag, den 14.04.2008, 16:16 +0200 schrieb Michael Schnell: > Some architectures can do execute in place (XIP), some can't. (I did not > yet find out the exact reasons.) > > RAM usually is a lot faster than Flash, so XIP might be not desirable. > > -Michael
XIP isn't necessarily for flash only. You can have a compressed romfs image that is expanded into ram during booting. One advantage of XIP is the fact that the text segment doesn't have to be allocated when the application is loaded, that helps to reduce memory fragmentation. Regards, Erwin _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
