Re: xip changes between 2.6.11 and 20050530?

Todd Poynor
2005-07-28T18:15:53Z

Konstantin Kletschke wrote:
> * Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> [Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0400]:
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>>>I switched off CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE=y which the XIP System seems to depend
>>>on!
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>>It sure doesn't.
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>>Something else must be going on.
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> Hm.. funny. Beside the trouble with my toolchains the working one
> creates definately only a bootable xipuImage if CONFIG_FPE_NWFPE is
> enabled. I wonder myself, why...

Dunno about that option, but check the assembly code generated for the
xip_* routines to see if any functions are called that are not marked
__xipram? If so, linux may be attempting to execute from flash memory
while the flash is not in the proper (read array or whatever) state.

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Todd