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From:	David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: MIPS RI/XI & trampolines [was:- [PATCH, RFC] MIPS: Implement
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Brian Foster wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 March 2009 23:34:16 David Daney wrote:
[...]
>> That said, we do have RI/XI working well in our kernel (for non-stack
>> memory), so it is something we are interested in pursuing.
> 
> David,
> 
>  I am Very Interested in this.  we also want RI/XI,
>  at least for for userland (and, very importantly,
>  including the stack), but haven't yet time to deal
>  with the issue.  (our platform is the 4KSd, which
>  has SmartMIPS (and thus has RI/XI)).
> 
>  is what you have at linux-mips.org someplace?
> 

Not at this time, I will see if we can get it merged for 2.6.30...

David Daney