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

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@metrolink.com>]

I've received some code, and should have hardware soon, so I was planning
on working on it.


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.
> 
> Marc.
> 
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                                Stuart

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