Re: [RFC] Advanced XIP File System

On 5/2/06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On 5/2/06, Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >
> > Why a new filesystem?
> > - XIP of kernel is mainline, but not XIP of applications. This
> > enables application XIP
>
> From what I recall, XIP of the kernel off of MTD is limited to ARM.

It doesn't have to.

Yes, I realize that all that is needed is support from other archs. A
more general form of the question would be does AXFS depend on
ARCH_MTD_XIP?

josh
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