"" Hi Nicolas, On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 7:07 PM Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:58 PM Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 May 2020, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > As upstream Linux does not support XIP, > > > > > > What? > > > > Not for an ARM v7 platform: > > > > config XIP_KERNEL > > bool "Kernel Execute-In-Place from ROM" > > depends on !ARM_LPAE && !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM > > Of course this is an artificial limitation. > > You can have XIP on ARMv7 if you want. It requires some kconfig > tweaks though. I am happy to hear that! Do you have any guidance how to implement that? So far our tries have failed. "[PATCH 0/2] ARM: ARMv7 (with MMU) XIP without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM" http://lore.kernel.org/r/20170209033044.19513-1-chris.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx "[PATCH] ARM: Allow MULTIPLATFOR to select XIP https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1455816310-11308-1-git-send-email-chris.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx/ "[PATCH 0/2] ARM: xip: Get XIP for ARMv7 working again http://lore.kernel.org/r/1437057434-1616-1-git-send-email-chris.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx "XIP_KERNEL and !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM http://lore.kernel.org/r/HK2PR06MB0561CC16649A9C1F341CC6648A030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... Thanks, and have a nice weekend Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
