From: Michael Shmulevich <michaels@jungo.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Shay Deloya <shay@jungo.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: insmod problems
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:53:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFA56F8.9090504@jungo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010508234036.A1216@bacchus.dhis.org
Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:13:43PM +0300, Shay Deloya wrote:
>
>
>> I have an old problem came up again and the old solution aren't helping.
>> Relocation overflow of type 4 for
>> Is it insmod knowen bugs that the relocation is done in bad way or
>> a linker/compiler bug. I'm using compiler: egcs ver 1.0.3a
>> I'm checking this problem at the moment and looking for insmod bug.
>
>
> You'll have to upgrade to very current binutils which for mips*-linux
> targets default to elf32-trad{big,little}mips, not IRIX ELF format. Also
> it seems your modutils are a bit rotten, get the latest from ftp.kernel.org.
>
> Ralf
On the same topic: same source (!!) 'insmod' executable compiled with
new (2.10) binutils doesn't exibit such relocation problem.
What may be causing 'insmod' to be dependant on binutils which compile
it? The module *.o is exactly same as it was before.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Shmulevich
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-10 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-06 16:13 insmod problems Shay Deloya
2001-05-09 2:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-10 8:53 ` Michael Shmulevich [this message]
2001-05-10 18:46 ` Ralf Baechle
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