Re: Linux patches for XIP on MPC8xx?

2010-03-24 Thread Vitaly Wool
Hi, > There were very few tests done with later kernel versions, and in all > practical system configurations we tested we found that XIP did not > give real benefits. Usually execution from flash was slower than when > running from RAM, and even booting a (inevitably uncompressed) kernel > from f

Re: Linux patches for XIP on MPC8xx?

2010-03-24 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 20:44 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > There were very few tests done with later kernel versions, and in all > practical system configurations we tested we found that XIP did not > give real benefits. Usually execution from flash was slower than when > running from RAM, and even

Re: Linux patches for XIP on MPC8xx?

2010-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Márton Németh, in message <4ba865d4.1090...@freemail.hu> you wrote: > > I found your homepage at > http://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/ConfigureLinuxForXIP back > from 2003. Was there any follow up of your patch for kernel 2.4.4? There were very few tests done with later kernel versions,

Re: Linux patches for XIP on MPC8xx?

2010-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Németh Márton wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > I found your homepage at > http://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/ConfigureLinuxForXIP back > from 2003. Was there any follow up of your patch for kernel 2.4.4? Not that I remember. Wolfgang. ___ Linuxppc-dev mai

Linux patches for XIP on MPC8xx?

2010-03-22 Thread Németh Márton
Hi Wolfgang, I found your homepage at http://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/ConfigureLinuxForXIP back from 2003. Was there any follow up of your patch for kernel 2.4.4? Regards, Márton Németh ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.oz