From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:12:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from p508B6D44.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.109.68]:49382 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:12:28 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h52ECObY028498; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:12:25 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h52ECMLA027859; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:12:22 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:12:22 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Keith Owens Cc: ilya@theIlya.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Yet another fix Message-ID: <20030602141222.GA25568@linux-mips.org> References: <20030602045700.GI3035@gateway.total-knowledge.com> <5368.1054560466@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5368.1054560466@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2500 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:27:46PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > Not in 2.4.20 nor 2.4.21-rc6 from Marcelo, must be a mips local change. > I strongly suggest that you get rid of it, there is no good reason to > emulate the 32 bit module syscalls on a 64 bit machine. modutils is > pure Linux and there is absolutely no justification for emulating 32 > bit versions of modutils when the user can install the 64 bit version > of modutils instead. 32 bit emulation is a crutch to let binary only > programs work when you do not have the source to rebuild to 64 bit, by > definition we have the source to modutils. Until very recently there was no 64-bit userland. > IA64 and x86_64 make no attempt to emulate 32 bit modutils. sparc64, > ppc64 and s390x all pass the data straight to the 64 bit kernel code, > they require the user space modutils to supply 64 bit data. Emulation > is a waste of time. The code simply does the sparc64 thing. Heck, it is the sparc64 code with minor changes. Ralf