[PATCH 1/7] ARM: linker script: factor out some common definitions between XIP and non-XIP

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Vladimir Murzin wrote:

> On 09/03/18 03:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Lots of duplications between vmlinux.lds.S and vmlinux-xip.lds.S.
> > This may lead to one file being updated but not the other. For example,
> > SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT and HYPERVISOR_TEXT were missing from the XIP version.
> 
> It looks to me that HYPERVISOR_TEXT was not present in the XIP version
> intentionally - XIP depends on !ARM_LPAE, i.e. not support for virtualisation.

Still... the !ARM_LPAE is an artificial dependency and there is no 
fundamental reason besides kconfig issues that would prevent XIP on 
LPAE.


Nicolas