Re: ROM drive (was embedded ROMd linux?)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:36:38 +0100 (BST)

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> Has any work on such a ROMdisk, or on booting the kernel from ROM, been done?
> Anyone who's interested in it, or has done anything towards either, please get in touch.

ROMFS in 2.1.x (but there is a 2.0 copy about) is a filesystem that handles
a compact read only format intended for ROM images. With a bit of hacking
it should also be possible to make it do execute in place

Alan

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