From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Aurele La France Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 03:29:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Xpert] XFree 4.0.1 module loading Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@ualberta.ca | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals.