Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: drop Execute-In-Place

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

On 05/05/2011 12:04 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 14:54, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Tim Bird wrote:
>>> On 05/05/2011 11:32 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 11:03 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
>>>>> On 05/05/2011 11:00 AM, Tim Bird wrote:
>>>>>> On 05/05/2011 07:52 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>>>> nearly no-one use it, only amop1, pxa and sa1100 implement it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sony uses this - a lot.  Principally we're using this on a NEC
>>>>>> naviengine part, which is ARM11MPCore based, support for which
>>>>>> is (sadly) out of tree.
>>>>
>>>> If you're out of tree, you don't exist.
>>>
>>> Yeah - I know.  I guess I should tell NEC we'll drop support
>>> for their chip and move to another one that supports XIP
>>> if they don't get their act together.  If XIP survives...
>>
>> It is easy enough to keep it alive... as long as someone uses it of
>> course.
> 
> i think David's point:
> ... someone <in tree> uses it ...

I should add that I tried to use XIP on omap (for research purposes),
but it was broken and I didn't have time to fix it.  My bad.
If anyone is using XIP on in-tree platforms, I'd like to hear
about it.

As for in-tree-ness - I thought the most recent message was to stay
out of tree until the refactoring was over. ;-)
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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