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From: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: drop Execute-In-Place
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 22:05:12 +0200
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org=
> wrote:

> Just to be clear... We have XIP in the tree already. =A0If it is usef=
ul
> to someone, in-tree or out-of-tree, then it is worth keeping around.
> Even if the only user was out-of-tree which certainly wasn't the case
> when I added XIP support to the kernel, then ripping it out and addin=
g
> it back later would be more trouble than preserving it.
>
> What I was asking recently is whether or not XIP is still useful to
> someone today. =A0Apparently it is, which is the answer I was looking=
 for.

Surely it is. The last thing I tried was the i.mx deviation which is
very much based on what's in the tree. It didn't work out without some
bits of hackery and I never got it straight enough to try upstreaming.

But nevertheless, IMO XIP is not dead and is not going to be in the
closest future.

~Vitaly