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

Chris Brandt Chris.Brandt at renesas.com
Tue Nov 17 08:56:58 PST 2015


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

What do you think about this submission?
I think it still holds true regardless of the incorrect sectioning.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-November/384354.html



>> 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.

I think this one is more of a coding issue.
These were the attempts to fix the temporary stack issue:

My first patch:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/357106.html


Magnus's try:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-November/383394.html



Chris




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