From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] binfmt_elf: FatELF support for kernel modules.
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:14:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091024121421.2e530635@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE22D04.50708@goop.org>
> Well, ideally a fat module would allow modules for multiple kernels to
> be bundled together (same and/or different architectures), which is
> primarily useful for 3rd-party binary distributions.
You would need thousands and thousands of binaries to do that. I'm not
sure the gigabyte sized module file would be too popular. It would be
easier to recompile it even automatically (take a look at the Dell stuff
for this)
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-24 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-19 14:41 Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-20 0:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-20 4:54 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-23 22:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-24 0:31 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-24 11:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-10-26 19:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-26 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-30 2:25 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-30 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-30 14:19 ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-20 8:33 ` Américo Wang
2009-10-21 8:06 ` Ryan C. Gordon
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