: In the bath last night (as always) I thought about how I could modify ELKS
: so it would run without a filesystem, and came up with a way of storing
: binary images in an area of ROM. The ROM would simply contain all the
: binaries in minix format concatenated together, the header of each aligned
: to a 16 byte boundary. The unused field of the header could contain a
: 4 character unterminated string which identifies the binary.
:
: exec would then be recoded to search this area of ROM for the binary in
: question, leaving the text segment and running it in place. The initialised
: data would then have to be copied into RAM, but very little RAM would be
: required as only the kernel and program data segments would need to be
: stored there.
:
: Any thoughts anyone?
Sounds good, but it would be nice to keep the idea encapsulated
as an actual filesystem. Thus, the standard fs entry points would still be used.
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: Al
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