Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support

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On Wed, 1 June 2005 17:33:29 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 5/12/05, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd
> > > abstraction fit your bill.  But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs
> > > could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction.
> > >
> > > Patching jffs2 for xip looks like a major effort, at best, and utterly
> > > insane at worst.  I'd prefer not to go down that path.
> > 
> > You and me both. The time has definitely come to recognise that JFFS2
> > needs replacing ;)
> 
> I'd say yaffs seems to be a good one. 

Not if you care about XIP.  Yaffs won't run on NOR flashes and XIP
won't work on NAND.

Jörn

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