Compiling modules question

["Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net>]

Hi.

Here's another question for the list that I've not been able to
answer. When I compile a kernel with modules, the modules all have
problems with undefined symbols like 'udiv', 'urem', etc. As
my machine is a 'v8' machine, my solution to resolving this
problem was to edit the makefile and add '-mcpu=v8' in a couple
of places, and things work fine. But, if I had to run my kernel
on a 'v7' machine, things would fail.

In 'arch/sparc/lib' there are routines that provide the missing
functions, so am I missing some step where this library gets linked
into the building of the module? If not, then these missing
functions must get picked up in libc, correct? My ignorance of how
things work in SparcLinux is showing ...

Thanks in advance for any info you can send my way.

Art Haas
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