AXFS filesystem for NOR

2008-08-26 Thread Tilman Baumann
What is the NOR flash used for in Freerunner? I don't know if it is worth it, but i always wanted to have a execution in place memory scheme on my embedded devices. There it is: http://axfs.sourceforge.net/ Only makes sense in NOR (the XIP part). But maybe we can speed up things (and save RAM)

Re: AXFS filesystem for NOR

2008-08-26 Thread Fox Mulder
I was thinking of the NOR flash as a backup if everithing goes wrong. If you flashed the NAND with a new bootloader and it fails you maybe couldn't start the bootloader from NAND anymore. But you always could boot from NOR flash because you couldn't/didn't reflash this bootloader. Maybe i'm totaly