On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, 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? It's the result of me deciding CONFIG_XIP_ROM wasn't totally appropriate ... > 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. ... so I renamed it to CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL. Especially since there is also XIPable user space which also can be stored in ROM (or flash). So please disregard CONFIG_XIP_ROM and use CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL. Whether ROM or Flash is used is rather irrelevant to the code this option is linked to. Nicolas
