linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/26] ARM: pxa: MTD_XIP is not actually working any more

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Date:	Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:44:50 +0800
From:	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jason Chagas <jason.chagas@...vell.com>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...vell.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/26] ARM: pxa: MTD_XIP is not actually working any more

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> The headers files required for XIP support have moved around
> over the last few years, and the code no longer builds.
> Until someone fixes this, let's just disable support, leaving
> sa1100 as the only platform still supporting xip.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

It is actually fixable, the problem is really mtd-xip.h is referencing
the interrupt registers directly which I moved them to mach-pxa/irq.c
for better modularization.

I'm fine to drop XIP. I'm afraid Nico's gonna be a bit disappointed
as I broke his favorite XIP code :-)

> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 570c9fd..71b0ccb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -619,7 +619,6 @@ config ARCH_PNX4008
>  config ARCH_PXA
>        bool "PXA2xx/PXA3xx-based"
>        depends on MMU
> -       select ARCH_MTD_XIP
>        select ARCH_HAS_CPUFREQ
>        select CLKDEV_LOOKUP
>        select CLKSRC_MMIO
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
>
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