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

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Chris Brandt wrote:

> >> So I've noticed. As far as I can tell, the XIP kernel stuff broke 
> >> years ago.
> >
> > That, of course, brings the question about keeping XIP around.
> 
> Well, as the email address suggests, I work for Renesas. And since
> the ARCH_R7S72100 has up to 10MB internal RAM and can XIP directly from
> QSPI Flash, that's a pretty simple BOM.
> 
> I also revisted the AXFS file system (that never made it into the
> kernel) and like the kernel, required some fixing up.
> However, I can get a functioning and usefull ARMv7 system up and
> running in under 3MB of total system RAM.
> That's got to be worth something to someone ;)

Absolutely.  I'll be glad to review your patches.

> > Everything can be fixed at once with a new linker script.
> 
> I do have to agree that a separate linker script would be a cleaner
> solution for the section arrangements.
> Of course, there are still some other XIP patches needed (like you can't
> use text areas as a temporary stack on boot), but the sections are a
> pretty logical place to start.

Maybe this can be prevented automatically by the linker with some 
read-only memory regions or the like.


Nicolas