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@ 2003-10-20 14:32 David Kesselring
  2003-10-20 15:48 ` David Daney
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From: David Kesselring @ 2003-10-20 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips

Can someone please confirm that loading and unloading of kernel modules is
functioning in the  2.4 release?

When I try to load a wlan module that I compiled (with mipsel-*) I get
relocation errors. I used the same options as I did to compile the kernel
(for MIPS Malta board). If you have any ideas, please let me know.


David Kesselring
Atmel MMC
dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
919-462-6587

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* Re: kernel modules
  2003-10-20 14:32 kernel modules David Kesselring
@ 2003-10-20 15:48 ` David Daney
  2003-10-20 18:13 ` David Daney
  2003-10-20 18:39 ` Ralf Baechle
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Daney @ 2003-10-20 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Kesselring; +Cc: linux-mips

David Kesselring wrote:

>Can someone please confirm that loading and unloading of kernel modules is
>functioning in the  2.4 release?
>
>When I try to load a wlan module that I compiled (with mipsel-*) I get
>relocation errors. I used the same options as I did to compile the kernel
>(for MIPS Malta board). If you have any ideas, please let me know.
>
>  
>
Works for me.

Using gcc 3.3.1 to compile modules, I had to upgrade to modutils-2.4.25 
and apply this patch to them:


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:09:24 -0700, 
David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> wrote:

>>Anyhow, I encountered a small problem trying to load a module compiled 
>>with gcc-3.3.1.  The module has dwarf debugging info and could not be 
>>loaded by insmod.  This patch causes MIPS_DWARF sections to be treated 
>>in the same manner as MIPS_DEBUG sections.
>>
>>Also there was a fall through in the case statement that caused error 
>>messages to be printed twice for "Unhandled section header type".
>  
>

Thanks.   I already have an equivalent patch in my development tree
(from Alvaro Martinez Echevarria).  It is waiting for me to get some
time to release modutils 2.4.26.

Index: 25.5/obj/obj_mips.c
--- 25.5/obj/obj_mips.c Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:39:06 +1100 kaos (modutils-2.4/c/10_obj_mips.c 1.4 644)
+++ 26.2(w)/obj/obj_mips.c Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:36:33 +1000 kaos (modutils-2.4/c/10_obj_mips.c 1.5 644)
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ arch_load_proc_section(struct obj_sectio
     {
     case SHT_MIPS_DEBUG:
     case SHT_MIPS_REGINFO:
-      /* Actually these two sections are as useless as something can be ...  */
+    case SHT_MIPS_DWARF:
+      /* Ignore debugging sections  */
       sec->contents = NULL;
       break;
 
@@ -83,10 +84,10 @@ arch_load_proc_section(struct obj_sectio
     case SHT_MIPS_GPTAB:
     case SHT_MIPS_UCODE:
     case SHT_MIPS_OPTIONS:
-    case SHT_MIPS_DWARF:
     case SHT_MIPS_EVENTS:
       /* These shouldn't ever be in a module file.  */
       error("Unhandled section header type: %08x", sec->header.sh_type);
+      return -1;
 
     default:
       /* We don't even know the type.  This time it might as well be a

David Daney

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* Re: kernel modules
  2003-10-20 14:32 kernel modules David Kesselring
  2003-10-20 15:48 ` David Daney
@ 2003-10-20 18:13 ` David Daney
  2003-10-20 18:39 ` Ralf Baechle
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Daney @ 2003-10-20 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Kesselring; +Cc: linux-mips

David Kesselring wrote:

>Can someone please confirm that loading and unloading of kernel modules is
>functioning in the  2.4 release?
>
>When I try to load a wlan module that I compiled (with mipsel-*) I get
>relocation errors. I used the same options as I did to compile the kernel
>(for MIPS Malta board). If you have any ideas, please let me know.
>
>  
>
Modules also require compiling with -mlong-calls in addition to the 
"normal" kernel options.

David Daney.

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* Re: kernel modules
  2003-10-20 14:32 kernel modules David Kesselring
  2003-10-20 15:48 ` David Daney
  2003-10-20 18:13 ` David Daney
@ 2003-10-20 18:39 ` Ralf Baechle
  2003-10-20 21:00   ` Zhang Haitao
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Baechle @ 2003-10-20 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Kesselring; +Cc: linux-mips

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:32:08AM -0400, David Kesselring wrote:

> Can someone please confirm that loading and unloading of kernel modules is
> functioning in the  2.4 release?
> 
> When I try to load a wlan module that I compiled (with mipsel-*) I get
> relocation errors. I used the same options as I did to compile the kernel
> (for MIPS Malta board). If you have any ideas, please let me know.

You're _not_ using the same options as the kernel's Makefile does for
building modules.

  Ralf

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* Re: kernel modules
  2003-10-20 18:39 ` Ralf Baechle
@ 2003-10-20 21:00   ` Zhang Haitao
  2003-10-21 12:34     ` David Kesselring
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Zhang Haitao @ 2003-10-20 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Kesselring; +Cc: linux-mips

On Mon, Oct 20, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> 
> You're _not_ using the same options as the kernel's Makefile does for
> building modules.
> 
>   Ralf
> 
Hi, modules compiled using these parameters are working on my 2.4.21 SMP 
kernel:

	CFLAGS="-I .../include/asm/gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I.../include -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -mcpu=XX 
-mips2 -Wa,--trap -pipe -DMODULE -mlong-calls"

XX = your chip style

Zhang Haitao

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* Re: kernel modules
  2003-10-20 21:00   ` Zhang Haitao
@ 2003-10-21 12:34     ` David Kesselring
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Kesselring @ 2003-10-21 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Zhang Haitao; +Cc: linux-mips


Thanks for your responses. I will try your suggestions.

David Kesselring
Atmel MMC
dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
919-462-6587

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