David Wheeler wrote: > approach would at least need to be available. However, it's my understanding > that few systems actually _RUN_ out of their ROMs. So, if you separate Right on the money. Modern processors are extremely fast. Modern ROMs are not. They are not cheap and RAM is, so pretty much everyone executes as few instructions as possible from ROM and 'shadows' (which usually involves decompression) to ram as soon as they can. Example in point, Linus himself created cramfs for embedded systems... Cheers Andrew _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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