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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri May 6 02:07:36 EDT 2011


* Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org> [110505 22:23]:
> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Tim Bird wrote:
> > 
> > I should add that I tried to use XIP on omap (for research purposes),
> > but it was broken and I didn't have time to fix it.  My bad.
> 
> OMAP is doing pretty nasty things with their early serial port support.  
> This is most likely to screw up XIP.

Yes to debug it you'd have to hardcode the uart_phys and virt
in the debug-macro.S for DEBUG_LL and EARLY_PRINTK. But should
be easy enough to do for anybody using XIP.

Of course there may also be other issues too :)

Tony



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