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

[tim.bird@am.sony.com (Tim Bird)]

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...
 -- 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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