Re: Execute-in-Place (XIP)

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:02:40AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:

> Due to the puny amounts of RAM (2MB) on my board, I'm going to have  
> to use XIP so that RAM isn't being taken up by kernel code. I was  
> looking around for MIPS XIP patches and all I could find was in the  
> linux-vr tree which seems, well, dead.

The linux-vr tree is kept online for people to dig out the goodies which
may be left in there :-)

> Does anyone know of any more  
> recent patches or should I undertake the work of porting the patch to  
> a more recent 2.4 kernel?

I guess you'll have to do that.  The alternative would be to port the
2.6 ARM XIP_KERNEL implementation.

  Ralf