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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Execute-in-Place (XIP)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:29:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051027102912.GB17645@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18E0376E-A524-42EE-A5ED-BDF9A0668DE6@bootc.net>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:02:40AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:

> Due to the puny amounts of RAM (2MB) on my board, I'm going to have  
> to use XIP so that RAM isn't being taken up by kernel code. I was  
> looking around for MIPS XIP patches and all I could find was in the  
> linux-vr tree which seems, well, dead.

The linux-vr tree is kept online for people to dig out the goodies which
may be left in there :-)

> Does anyone know of any more  
> recent patches or should I undertake the work of porting the patch to  
> a more recent 2.4 kernel?

I guess you'll have to do that.  The alternative would be to port the
2.6 ARM XIP_KERNEL implementation.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-27  9:02 Execute-in-Place (XIP) Chris Boot
2005-10-27 10:29 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-10-28 22:20   ` Chris Boot
2005-10-28 22:51     ` Chris Boot
2005-10-28 23:08       ` David Daney

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