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From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: Rolf Liu <rolfl@sc.mcel.mot.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: RE: separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux p
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 20:14:04 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010103201404.gthomas@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <017b01c075f0$15265b50$bf0102c8@sc.mcel.mot.com>


On 04-Jan-2001 Rolf Liu wrote:
>
> Hi,all,
> I am planning to run linux-ppc on ppc823 FADS board.
> As all know, the kernel is resided in flash rom, then upon power-on, kernel
> is copied to RAM.
> I wonder if I can just put data segment to ram and leave code segment to
> FLASH, just as uClinux
> has done. such method will save some ram space, which makes sense on
> embedded solutions.
> Can you give me a hint how to realize it ?
> Any suggestion is appreciated !

This method is called XIP (for execute in place) and is available on
some other architectures.  I don't know what it would take for the PPC,
but you could look at the work done on the Hitachi SH - I know it's supported
there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-04  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-04  1:45 separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux ppc ? Rolf Liu
2001-01-04  3:14 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2001-01-04  3:49   ` separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux p Rolf Liu
2001-01-04  4:07   ` Critical section - pSOS+ Srinivas Rao.M
2001-01-04 21:03     ` Jerry Van Baren
2001-01-05  5:19       ` Srinivas Rao.M
2001-01-04 18:07   ` separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux p Dan Malek
2001-01-04  8:50 ` separate kernel as code segment and data segment for linux ppc ? Wolfgang Denk

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