Re: [PATCH] Module loader against 2.5.46: 9/9

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 04:35:16 EST


On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:08:24PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> That explains it: I didn't think you were insane 8). Thanks, I'll
> move it to some other name which just does the "add symbols to oops"
> minimum.

I doubt that we need all of the kallsyms data in the kernel as well (unless
you're using kdb.)

One of the things on my todo list is to look into a kallsyms replacement
that allows cross-compilation (and actually allows kallsyms to work at
all on ARM.)

ARM requires the ELF architecture private flags to be set correctly to link
two objects together. So there's two problems with the current setup:

1. can't cross-compile with kallsyms
2. can't natively compile with kallsyms on architectures that require
   the private flags to be set correctly.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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