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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 14:54, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.

i think David's point:
... someone <in tree> uses it ...
-mike