From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Otte Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <429DC041.6070001@de.ibm.com> References: <428216DF.8070205@de.ibm.com> <2cd57c9005060103122b2bae36@mail.gmail.com> <200506011406.04191.arnd@arndb.de> <20050601133938.GB29116@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Reply-To: cotte@freenet.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Arnd Bergmann , coywolf@lovecn.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org Return-path: Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:64229 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261381AbVFAODq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:03:46 -0400 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= In-Reply-To: <20050601133938.GB29116@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org J=F6rn Engel wrote: >On Wed, 1 June 2005 14:06:03 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > =20 > >>On Middeweken 01 Juni 2005 12:12, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: >> =20 >> >>>>As I'd like to aim for integration into -mm and vanilla later on, >>>>I'd like to encourage everyone to give it a read and provide >>>>feedback. All patches apply against git-head as of today. >>>> =20 >>>> >>>I feel the name "execute in place" misleading. This is not the real >>>XIP, IMHO. Invent another term or be tolerant? >>> =20 >>> >>If this is not real execute in place, then what is? The term seems to >>describe the patch rather well and we don't have this ability for Lin= ux >>applications anywhere else, at least not in official kernels. >> =20 >> > >We can execute the kernel in place, thanks to Nicolas Pitre. For >userspace I have seen to preparation patches, but nothing serious. > =20 > Given that execute in place describes the ability to run code at the very same location where it is permanently stored, and that this is exactly what the patch enables, I think the wording is correct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html