Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:02:06 -0700 | From | "Jared Hulbert" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP |
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On 6/8/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:34:12PM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > >And we'll need that even when using cramfs. There's not way we'd > > >merge a hack where the user has to specify a physical address on > > >the mount command line. > > > > Why not? For the use case in question the user usually manually > > burned the image to a physical address before hand. Many of these > > system don't have MTD turned on for this Flash, they don't need it > > because they don't write to this Flash once the system is up. > > Then add a small device layer for it. Remember that linux is not all > about hacked up embedded devices that get shipped once and never > touched again.
Remember that linux is not all about big iron machines with lots of processors and gigabytes of RAM :)
I concede your layer point, ioremap() doesn't belong in the filesystem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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