[PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

Jared Hulbert jaredeh at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 22:48:13 EDT 2008


> That would be enough I think. If you could manually select
> which files are contiguous-and-uncompressed that would be
> useful for some too here.

So.... If you don't have an MMU when do you call ->fault?  Does the
noMMU code just loop through ->fault()ing all the pages in an mmap()?

> One thing for sure is that many people who do non-MMU setups
> are interested in XIP to get the space savings. These are very
> often small devices with very constrained RAM and flash. (For
> whatever it is worth single NOR flash only boards are common in
> these smaller form factors :-)

True.



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