Re: [linuxsh-dev] SuperH modutils for 2.4 kernels?

[Bryan R. <br...@ix...>]

Mitch Davis wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I would like to be able to use kernel modules with
> the latest 2.4.x kernel.  Does anyone know how
> to do this?

Hi Mitch,

I wrote a insmod.c patch for the BusyBox project which enables their
insmod to load SH modules. It seems to work OK with my module code, but
it complains about some symbols not being availible if I try to load
modules built from the kernel sources (af_packet, ramfs, dummy,
etc)--usually it's memset, memcpy, etc but sometimes flush_dcache_page
is also unresolved. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my patch or
with the kernel code, but if you want to give it a shot:

http://foobar.caltech.edu/linuxsh4/insmod-sh4.diff

That's a patch against the latest insmod.c off of busybox.lineo.com CVS.
lsmod and rmmod are not architecture dependent AFAIK.

I am also interested in seeing a patch against the latest modutils,
especially if it has no trouble loading modules built from the LinuxSH
CVS kernel code. Did the module interface change between 2.2 and 2.4,
causing modutils-2.1.121 to have trouble loading 2.4 modules? (I based
my patch on an SH patch for 2.1.121).

Regards,

Bryan

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