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Two new capabilities are introduced here: - The ability to store some blocks uncompressed. - The ability to locate blocks anywhere. Those capabilities can be used independently, but the combination opens the possibility for execute-in-place (XIP) of program text segments that must remain uncompressed, and in the MMU case, must have a specific alignment. It is even possible to still have the writable data segments from the same file compressed as they have to be copied into RAM anyway. This is achieved by giving special meanings to some unused block pointer bits while remaining compatible with legacy cramfs images. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Tested-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.