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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Michal Schulz <mschulz@rose.man.poznan.pl>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Paul Nash <paulnash@wildseed.com>,
	"Linux-MTD (E-mail)" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Intel sez: Synchronous Flash and XIP is the future -- thoughts?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:16:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021216111641.8FBABC6139@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:04:50 +0100." <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212161155540.15280-100000@rose.man.poznan.pl>

In message <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212161155540.15280-100000@rose.man.poznan.pl> you wrote:
>
> With the XIP in kernel it is relatively simple with 2.2.x serie of
> kernels. I have managed to put most of 2.2.18 kernel onto flash, where it

We also tested this with 2.4.4 on PowerPC.

> was executing from. The most problems are with .rodata section, which is
> not read-only for kernel. It is so because some structures (one passed to

With recent kernels, at least on PPC, there are also places where the
.text  segment  is  written  into.  Some  people  even  find  "binary
patching" a cool idea.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87  Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88  Email: wd@denx.de
FORTRAN? The syntactically incorrect statement "DO 10 I = 1.10"  will
parse  and  generate  code  creating  a  variable, DO10I, as follows:
"DO10I = 1.10" If that doesn't terrify you, it should.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-12-16 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-16  2:51 Intel sez: Synchronous Flash and XIP is the future -- thoughts? Paul Nash
2002-12-16  9:07 ` David Woodhouse
2002-12-16  9:27   ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-16  9:38     ` David Woodhouse
2002-12-16  9:56       ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-16 11:45         ` David Woodhouse
2002-12-16 17:21           ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-12-16 17:38             ` David Woodhouse
2002-12-16 18:06               ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-12-16 17:43             ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-16 18:07               ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-12-16 21:02           ` Charles Manning
2002-12-16 21:21             ` Russ Dill
2002-12-16 23:18               ` Charles Manning
2002-12-16 11:04     ` Michal Schulz
2002-12-16 11:16       ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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