From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ARM kernel module loader.
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:38:34 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021120074545.57B1D2C085@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:31:29 -0000." <20021119203128.E5535@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In message <20021119203128.E5535@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> you write:
> Ok, here's the problem I'm currently facing.
>
> KAO's insmod used to do various fixups (trampolines of 8 bytes in length)
> before inserting modules into the kernel on ARM to make sure the PC24
> branch relocations were able to reach the kernel binary image in memory.
> PC24 relocations have a maximum range of +/- 32MB, and the kernel may be
> (on current architectures) up to 256MB to 512MB away.
See PPC32, on my kernel.org page. Exactly the same issue.
Rusty.
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Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-19 20:31 Russell King
2002-11-19 22:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-11-20 7:38 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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