Re: question about ramdisk

[Lee Revell]

Sorry, Robert Love's book is 'Linux Kernel Development'.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325128/ref=pd_sim_books_2/002-8634838-0327232?v=glance&s=books

Lee

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> "Unix Internals", by Uresh Vahalia (sp?).  This book went everywhere I
> did for a year.  I cannot praise it highly enough.  Read that, then get
> Robert Love's 'Linux Kernel Programming'.
> 
> Lee
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:01, lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Thank you! Can you pls tell me where I can find related references? I've been 
> > looking into several books about kernel and part of the kernel code, but no 
> > luck so far.. 
> > 
> > Thanks for any comments!
> > 
> > Quoting "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > Followup to:  <1089651469.40f2c30d44364@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > By author:    lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I am learning linux kernel and have a question about ramdisk. When loading
> > > an 
> > > > executable in ramdisk, is the kernel loading the code all at a time to
> > > memory 
> > > > and then execute, or is it loading only a page at one time and generating a
> > > 
> > > > page fault to fetch another page?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for any comments! Waiting desprately for your help.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Neither.  The code is already in RAM.  It's mapped into the process
> > > address space and run in place.
> > > 
> > > 	-hpa
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