From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4A8rvw27005 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 10 May 2001 01:53:57 -0700 Received: from mailgw3.netvision.net.il (mailgw3.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4A8rPF26994; Thu, 10 May 2001 01:53:26 -0700 Received: from jungo.com ([194.90.113.98]) by mailgw3.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27494; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:51:48 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <3AFA56F8.9090504@jungo.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:53:12 +0300 From: Michael Shmulevich Organization: Jungo LTD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: Shay Deloya , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: insmod problems References: <01050619134301.01140@athena.home.krftech.com> <20010508234036.A1216@bacchus.dhis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:13:43PM +0300, Shay Deloya wrote: > > >> I have an old problem came up again and the old solution aren't helping. >> Relocation overflow of type 4 for >> Is it insmod knowen bugs that the relocation is done in bad way or >> a linker/compiler bug. I'm using compiler: egcs ver 1.0.3a >> I'm checking this problem at the moment and looking for insmod bug. > > > You'll have to upgrade to very current binutils which for mips*-linux > targets default to elf32-trad{big,little}mips, not IRIX ELF format. Also > it seems your modutils are a bit rotten, get the latest from ftp.kernel.org. > > Ralf On the same topic: same source (!!) 'insmod' executable compiled with new (2.10) binutils doesn't exibit such relocation problem. What may be causing 'insmod' to be dependant on binutils which compile it? The module *.o is exactly same as it was before. Sincerely yours, Michael Shmulevich ______________________________________ Software Developer Jungo - R&D email: michaels@jungo.com web: http://www.jungo.com Phone: 1-877-514-0537(USA) +972-9-8859365(Worldwide) ext. 233 Fax: 1-877-514-0538(USA) +972-9-8859366(Worldwide)