[PATCH v3] ARM: xip: Use correct symbol for end of ROM marker

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Nov 16 12:30:53 PST 2015


Please wrap your messages at or before column 72, thanks.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 08:18:55PM +0000, Chris Brandt wrote:
> Maybe the only true solution is to have some additional XIP Kconfig
> option that tells the kernel to not copy any of the init or data
> sections at all at boot,

An XIP kernel will copy the .data section from ROM into RAM for you.
You don't need additional code external to the kernel to perfor this.

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