From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261364AbVFAM3A (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:29:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261365AbVFAM27 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:28:59 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:20617 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261364AbVFAM1U (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:27:20 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: coywolf@lovecn.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:06:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: cotte@freenet.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org References: <428216DF.8070205@de.ibm.com> <2cd57c9005060103122b2bae36@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2cd57c9005060103122b2bae36@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506011406.04191.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Middeweken 01 Juni 2005 12:12, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > > > 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. > > I feel the name "execute in place" misleading. This is not the real > XIP, IMHO. Invent another term or be tolerant? 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 Linux applications anywhere else, at least not in official kernels. Arnd <><