From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
To: Gary Thomas <gdt@linuxppc.org>, Tom Vier <thomassr@erols.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: egcs-1.1.1-1c bug (was Re: major ksyms problem)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:06:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.25.19990224170223.009a5a80@mail.lauterbach.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990224095316.gdt@linuxppc.org>
At 10:53 24.02.99 , Gary Thomas wrote:
>On 23-Feb-99 Franz Sirl wrote:
>>
>> Am Tue, 23 Feb 1999 schrieb Tom Vier:
>>>On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Franz Sirl wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 15:36 22.02.99 , Tom Vier wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >it's an egcs bug. i think it's not aligning instructions properly, cuz
>>>> >i believe the 601 is more strict about alignment. is anyone having
>>>> >problems using bsd_comp.o, ppp_deflate.o, and hfs.o on a non-601
>>>> >machine built under pre-R5 (egcs-1.1.1-1c)?
>>>>
>>>> What makes you think that it is an egcs bug? I have no problems on 601
>>>> (7200/75) with any of the modules you listed. Are you sure you have the
>>>> latest modutils (2.1.121 or later) installed?
>>>
>>>it is an egcs bug. egcs-1.1.1-1c failss to build working bsd_comp.o,
>>>ppp_deflate.o, and hfs.o; egcs-1.0-2e.ppc.rpm builds it perfectly. i'm
>>>getting a newer build of egcs right now, to see if it's fixed.
>>
>> What is the problem with these modules? Give a better description on
>> what you
>> mean with "working"? They work perfectly for me with a self-compiled 2.2.1
>> kernel, and I compiled working modules with multiple kernel versions
>> since the
>> egcs-1.1 alpha phase.
>> If your only problem is the "unhandled relocation type", install a newer
>> modutils package (>=2.1.121), that will fix it.
>>
>
>Sadly he can't use that modutils package as it's only for 2.1.xx and 2.2.xx
>kernels.
>
>Tom, Can you try the 2.2.xx kernels and see if they work for you? This would
>be a much better way to spend your time rather than looking after a quite old
>kernel.
Or try to recompile the modutils (or modules package, as it was called
before) he is using with the appended patch.
Franz.
Index: obj_ppc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/modutils/obj/obj_ppc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 obj_ppc.c
--- obj_ppc.c 1997/09/10 22:20:03 1.1
+++ obj_ppc.c 1998/06/24 01:47:42
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@
*loc = (*loc & ~0x03fffffc) | (v & 0x03fffffc);
break;
+ case R_PPC_REL32:
+ v -= dot;
+ *loc = v;
+ break;
+
case R_PPC_ADDR32:
*loc = v;
break;
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902220432430.2138-100000@localhost.erols.com>
1999-02-22 14:36 ` egcs-1.1.1-1c bug (was Re: major ksyms problem) Tom Vier
1999-02-23 7:22 ` Gary Thomas
1999-02-23 12:24 ` Tom Vier
1999-02-23 20:53 ` Tom Vier
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902220928100.405-100000@localhost.erols.com >
1999-02-23 15:00 ` Franz Sirl
1999-02-23 21:06 ` Tom Vier
1999-02-23 21:15 ` Franz Sirl
1999-02-24 9:53 ` Gary Thomas
1999-02-24 16:06 ` Franz Sirl [this message]
1999-02-25 2:20 ` Tom Vier
1999-02-24 18:40 ` Tom Vier
1999-02-24 7:14 ` Michel Lanners
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