Re: [RFC] Advanced XIP File System

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:57 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
First, is it worth it?

Quite possibly not. Even if you don't actually have kernel XIP, you may
well decide just not to schedule userspace while the flash isn't in READ
mode. Tearing down PTEs is painful.

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