[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fix the condition to detect if an image is already in its place

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Mar 16 00:14:48 CET 2007


In message <20070315223514.GA51 at informatik.uni-freiburg.de> you wrote:
> 
> Do you admit that the first branch of the if I changed asserts the
> header to start at ih_load and the other asserts the data to start at
> ih_load?  So if you have an XIP image in RAM starting at a wrong
> address, booting will fail.

XIP = eXecute In Place, i. e. the image is run directly from flash /
ROM, without loading it to RAM at all.

> BTW: I couldn't find this config item "Make a XIP (eXecute in Place)
> kernel", neither in Linus nor in your tree:

If you had read the page I referred you to, you should have seen the
link at the end, which indicates pretty clearly which tree was used.

> And even
> 	git branch -r | grep denx | xargs git grep "Make a XIP"
> didn't return anything.

Wrong tree... We did not even import that tree to git yet...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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