Interesting question!  I'm not certain about this, but does not WinCE
support XIP (execute-in-place)?  If so then it should be able to do
what you say.

iPaq/Linux however, is a different story.  Current images use JFFS2, which
is a journalling flash file system.  It treats the entire flash as 
a read-write filesystem (performing some voodoo to make sure that
no one area of flash gets accessed more than others).  This question
was asked on the linux-Ipaq list and I believe the best answer was
that Linux will only use memory as it is needed or accessed.  It doesn't
behave like XIP, but it's pretty efficient just the same.

If you're curious the discussion should be archived on www.handhelds.org
in the 'ipaq' mailing list archive somewhere. ;)


On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:40:47PM -0700, Craig Latta wrote:
> 
> 	Hmm. Would it be possible to run the image on wince from where it sits
> in "storage" RAM, without copying it into "program" RAM? It seems a
> shame to use twice the space. I'm willing to give up the integrity of a
> snapshot after startup (as long as I can still make another snapshot).
> Can iPAQ/Linux Squeak do something clever in this regard?
> 
> 	thanks,
> 
> -C
> 
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