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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:16:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Xpert] XFree 4.0.1 module loading
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:54:16 -0400 (EDT), 
Stuart Anderson <anderson@metrolink.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Madore 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.