On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:07:17PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > I'm looking at some sources for kernel Execute-in-place (XIP). > > I see references to CONFIG_XIP_ROM and CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL, > in different architecture branches of the same kernel > source tree. > > Is this difference merely the result of inconsistent > usage, or is there a functional difference between > these two options? > > I can imagine that CONFIG_XIP_ROM is intended only to > handle XIP in ROM, and that CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL possibly > handles additional cases like XIP in flash. However, > before jumping to that conclusion I thought I would > ask if there is some intention behind the different > config names. Since you copied linux-mips - neither option is implemented for MIPS ... Ralf