Linux patches for XIP on MPC8xx?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 24 20:43:24 EST 2010


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 booting a (inevitably uncompressed) kernel
> from flash is typically slower than loading a compressed image to RUM
> and booting from there.
                                                                     ^

Missing an H here :-)

Cheers,
Ben.




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