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

[Marc Aurele La France <tsi@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

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.

Marc.

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