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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: ARM kernel module loader. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:31:29 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:38:34 +1100
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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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