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

[Nicolas Pitre]

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.


Nicolas