Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:03:45 +0200 | From | Carsten Otte <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support |
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Jörn Engel wrote:
>On Wed, 1 June 2005 14:06:03 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > >>On Middeweken 01 Juni 2005 12:12, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: >> >> >>>>As I'd like to aim for integration into -mm and vanilla later on, >>>>I'd like to encourage everyone to give it a read and provide >>>>feedback. All patches apply against git-head as of today. >>>> >>>> >>>I feel the name "execute in place" misleading. This is not the real >>>XIP, IMHO. Invent another term or be tolerant? >>> >>> >>If this is not real execute in place, then what is? The term seems to >>describe the patch rather well and we don't have this ability for Linux >>applications anywhere else, at least not in official kernels. >> >> > >We can execute the kernel in place, thanks to Nicolas Pitre. For >userspace I have seen to preparation patches, but nothing serious. > > Given that execute in place describes the ability to run code at the very same location where it is permanently stored, and that this is exactly what the patch enables, I think the wording is correct.
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