On Thu, 5 May 2011, Tim Bird wrote: > On 05/05/2011 12:04 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 14:54, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Tim Bird wrote: > >>> On 05/05/2011 11:32 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > >>>> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 11:03 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > >>>>> On 05/05/2011 11:00 AM, Tim Bird wrote: > >>>>>> On 05/05/2011 07:52 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > >>>>>>> nearly no-one use it, only amop1, pxa and sa1100 implement it > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Sony uses this - a lot. Principally we're using this on a NEC > >>>>>> naviengine part, which is ARM11MPCore based, support for which > >>>>>> is (sadly) out of tree. > >>>> > >>>> If you're out of tree, you don't exist. > >>> > >>> Yeah - I know. I guess I should tell NEC we'll drop support > >>> for their chip and move to another one that supports XIP > >>> if they don't get their act together. If XIP survives... > >> > >> It is easy enough to keep it alive... as long as someone uses it of > >> course. > > > > i think David's point: > > ... someone <in tree> uses it ... > > I should add that I tried to use XIP on omap (for research purposes), > but it was broken and I didn't have time to fix it. My bad. OMAP is doing pretty nasty things with their early serial port support. This is most likely to screw up XIP. > If anyone is using XIP on in-tree platforms, I'd like to hear > about it. > > As for in-tree-ness - I thought the most recent message was to stay > out of tree until the refactoring was over. ;-) Just to be clear... We have XIP in the tree already. If it is useful to someone, in-tree or out-of-tree, then it is worth keeping around. Even if the only user was out-of-tree which certainly wasn't the case when I added XIP support to the kernel, then ripping it out and adding it back later would be more trouble than preserving it. What I was asking recently is whether or not XIP is still useful to someone today. Apparently it is, which is the answer I was looking for. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
