[RFC PATCH] arm: drop Execute-In-Place

[Vitaly Wool]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
<plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> wrote:
> nearly no-one use it, only amop1, pxa and sa1100 implement it

What's amop1?

> this is the only reason why we need to keep the PLAT_PHY_OFFSET
> and do not enable the "Patch physical to virtual translations at runtime"
> support when have MMU enabled

I'm actually poking around several SoCs that have relatively large and
fast NOR flash and they do use XIP.

> As done on AT91
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao at canonical.com>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>

So this is most definitely a NAK from my side. By killing XIP we're
moving Linux kernel out of Automotive scope.

I'd rather let at91 go.

~Vitaly