[U-Boot-Users] Execute in place

[Michael Frey]

Oh -- It absolutely is ported to ARM, I am running a XIP kernel on an 
xscale board!!! And the example below works perfectly.

Michael



On Sep 9, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Ladislav Michl wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 10:10:41AM -0400, Michael Frey wrote:
>> Marcelo,
>>
>> Instead of using bootm to boot the kernel you just need to jump to the
>> address where the XIP image is located in flash.
>>
>> Like this:
>>
>> go 0x000c0000
>
> That's nonsense. That doesn't make kernel XIP. AFAIR the only attempt 
> to
> make XIP kernel was done for SH port. I do not know its current state.
>
> ARM kernel doesn't support XIP. Only kernel uncompressor runs directly
> from flash (if configured in) and unpacks kernel into memory and then
> jumping there. I'm using U-Boot for such purpose anyway, because it
> gives you more freedom :)
>
> Best regards,
> 	ladis