Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:44:39 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/11] x86/xip: resolve alternative instructions at build |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:50:49PM -0700, Jim Kukunas wrote: > XIP isn't a general feature that distros are going to be enabling. It's > designed for a very specific usage where people are building very custom > kernels.
So something very very special which is not going to be enabled on distros...
But it is touching main x86 code paths a good deal. We should think about abstracting it out of the way. The current EFI ifdeffery is already nasty and sprinkling #ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL in addition is making it even worse. :/
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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