From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tim.bird@am.sony.com (Tim Bird)
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 11:00:10 -0700
Subject: [RFC PATCH] arm: drop Execute-In-Place
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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.

I'd like to see MORE support for XIP in the kernel, not less.

NAK from me.
 -- 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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