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Tom Appermont wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to get modules to work on my R5000 little endian
> target, linux 2.4.1 + modutils 2.4.2 .
> 
> When I insmod a module, I get error messages like:
> 

Tom,

This is a well-known problem which also exists in the old toolchain.  If you
can search the archive, you can see a string of discussions a few months
back.  (I don't know if we have any mailing archive?)

> 
> I use egcs 1.2.1 + binutils 2.9.5. Is this a problem with my
> binutils?
> 

Essentially it is caused by the different symbols sorting used in binutial and
modutils.  I was trying to fix it but it was beyond my ken.

Jun