[Linux-ia64] A Couple of Questions on 2.4.18

[Linux-ia64] A Couple of Questions on 2.4.18

[Alberto Munoz]

Hello Everyone,

I just upgraded my Linux kernel to 2.4.18 and have a couple of questions:

- I am having trouble dynamically loading NFS. It complains about an
unresolved external (memset). Poking around through the IA64 files
(ia64_ksyms.c) I noticed that memset is no longer exported (as it was in
2.4.9), instead __memset_generic is being exported. Is there anything I am
failing to do to get external modules to resolve memset to __memset_generic?

- acpi.c (in arch/ia64/kernel) is forced to be included with the IA64
kernel, but if one wants to run that kernel on top of the SKI simulator
(which does not have ACPI), the kernel refuses to compile because some of
the definitions used by acpi.c are included under ifdefs (that are not
defined  the configuration file for the SKI simulator, like CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT
and CONFIG_ACPI_PCI) in  include/linux/acp.h.

I have hacked my way around both of these problems, but I would like to know
if there are more elegant ways of getting around them, or if I am entirely
missing something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bert Munoz

Re: [Linux-ia64] A Couple of Questions on 2.4.18

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Mon, 6 May 2002 17:57:24 -0700, Alberto Munoz <amunoz@vmware.com> said:

  Alberto> Hello Everyone, I just upgraded my Linux kernel to 2.4.18
  Alberto> and have a couple of questions:

  Alberto> - I am having trouble dynamically loading NFS. It complains
  Alberto> about an unresolved external (memset). Poking around
  Alberto> through the IA64 files (ia64_ksyms.c) I noticed that memset
  Alberto> is no longer exported (as it was in 2.4.9), instead
  Alberto> __memset_generic is being exported. Is there anything I am
  Alberto> failing to do to get external modules to resolve memset to
  Alberto> __memset_generic?

  Alberto> - acpi.c (in arch/ia64/kernel) is forced to be included
  Alberto> with the IA64 kernel, but if one wants to run that kernel
  Alberto> on top of the SKI simulator (which does not have ACPI), the
  Alberto> kernel refuses to compile because some of the definitions
  Alberto> used by acpi.c are included under ifdefs (that are not
  Alberto> defined the configuration file for the SKI simulator, like
  Alberto> CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT and CONFIG_ACPI_PCI) in
  Alberto> include/linux/acp.h.

  Alberto> I have hacked my way around both of these problems, but I
  Alberto> would like to know if there are more elegant ways of
  Alberto> getting around them, or if I am entirely missing something.

Not really.  The next patch should have these problems fixed (due out
very soon).

	--david