Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Xpert] XFree 4.0.1 module loading

Michael Madore
2000-08-17T06:18:00Z

Hi Marc,

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Marc Aurele La France wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > >> I guess my question now is: Should the dlopen() loader be able to
> > >> resolve inter-module dependencies? If not, what is left to be done with
> > >> the elf loader make it functional on IA64?
>
> > >Support for the ELF64 relocation types. Just like a block of code was added
> > >for Alpha support, the same type of thing will have to be added for IA64.
>
> > modutils 2.3.13 has IA64 relocation support, courtesy of Mike Stephens
> > at Intel. obj/obj_ia64.c should be a reasonable starting point.
>
> Is anyone going ahead with this? If not, I can probably come pretty close
> to getting it working even though I'd be going in blind (no hardware).
>
> Let me know.

This is on my list of things to work on, but any help would certainly be
welcome.

Mike Madore