From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modutils: using kallsyms when cross-compiling kernel
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:44:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16698.1043480653@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:06:58 MDT." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301242200580.363-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:06:58 -0600 (CST),
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>On 24 Jan 2003, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
>> Is my diagnosis correct? Is there any easy way for me to fix this (at
>> least enough so that I can build a PPC kernel on x86 with kkallsyms
>> support), or is the only solution to bite the bullet and fix the
>> modutils ELF code to be endianness clean?
>
>You could of course also backport the current 2.5 kallsyms code. This has,
>though originally based on kallsyms, been completely rewritten and not
>much to do with the original patch anymore (and different objectives).
The 2.5 kallsyms code is incomplete. It is missing all the section
data which is required by kernel debuggers and profilers.
http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=500
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-25 0:51 Roland Dreier
2003-01-25 0:59 ` Keith Owens
2003-01-25 4:06 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-25 7:44 ` Keith Owens [this message]
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