PXE boot an XIP image?

[Julian Elischer]

On 6/16/15 1:04 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:38:26PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> On 6/16/15 12:02 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>>> Our tmpfs(5) provides the in-place execution capability, assuming the image
>>> has correctly aligned segments.
>> cool.. but I guess you'd have to load it up from the net before you
>> could use it.
>> Is this documented anywhere?
>>
> Documented what ? A way to populate tmpfs mount with some data ?
> I think tar xf might be enough.
No silly, the fact that it allows in-place execution where the text 
pages of
the binary are mapped directly to the text pages of the running 
process image.
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