Re: state of XIP?

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:41 PM, David Holland 
> <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>> Did uebayasi@'s XIP work get finished/committed? Which things does it
>> work with? And (other than UTSL) where am I supposed to look to find
>> out more?

It is still WIP.  See [1] and/or some discussions on tech-kern@.

> It was not committed since core felt that it needed too many kludges
> to properly work.

The biggest reason XIP needs kludges is that UVM is too vnode+pagecache centric.

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/~uebayasi/bsdcan-2010-xip.pdf