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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: drop Execute-In-Place
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:31:11 -0400
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 16:25, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 12:27 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 15:12, Tim Bird wrote:
>>> As for in-tree-ness - I thought the most recent message was to stay
>>> out of tree until the refactoring was over. ;-)
>>
>> to be fair, does this have any relevance whatsoever to NEC parts ?
>> istm that the hindrance here is NEC doing any actual work for
>> mainline. =C2=A0even if there was no refactoring, i find it hard to =
believe
>> that an NEC port would be posted. =C2=A0if it were actually somethin=
g that
>> could happen, then they should already be posting patches for *basic=
*
>> review to get the pieces unrelated to the refactoring worked out.
>> there's no reason this has to be done serially.
>
> Well, OK. =C2=A0I just don't want to lob bombs at NEC and then
> have some poor soul over there get immediately rebuffed, due to
> basic ARM churn. =C2=A0Maybe not having naviengine support upstream
> is my fault, but Sony doesn't make the CPU, so it doesn't seem
> like it should be my job to mainline the chip support. =C2=A0About
> the only thing I have at my disposal is pressure not to buy
> the chip (but this is harder to exercise than one might think.)

i dont have any vested interest either way wrt NEC or ARM/XIP.  i was
just trying to highlight what i saw as a red herring.

i think the axiom "post early & post often" holds just as true here.
-mike