On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 02:07:24PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 09.04.21 13:39, Alex Ghiti wrote: > > Hi David, > > I assume you still somehow create the direct mapping for the kernel, right? > So it's really some memory region with a direct mapping but without a memmap > (and right now, without a resource), correct?
XIP kernel text is not a region in memory to begin with ;-) It resides in a flash and it is executed directly from there without being relocated to RAM. That's why it does not need neither direct mapping, nor struct pages. -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
