RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RISC-V XIP Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.13 To "eXecute In Place"

It looks like the Linux 5.13 kernel will be supporting an interesting RISC-V feature this spring...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RISC-V-XIP-For-Linux-5.13

[abufrejoval]

It's kinda funny, because that's just how it used to always be in the old days of microcomputers and first PCs: Who'd ever copy [not cheap]ROM to [super expensive]RAM first? Except when ROMs simply got too slow and it was made a feature to have "shadow ROMs".