From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Simon Vallet <linux-ppc@castalie.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: R_PPC_ADDR16_HI relocs in PPC modules ?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:41:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167770486.6165.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070102172554.7a94cd37@mlejnas.priv.castalie.org>
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:25 +0100, Simon Vallet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently trying to port a binary-only driver to Linux/PPC using a
> MacOS X driver as a starting point. "Translating" this driver to ELF32
> gives an object that links into a .ko without too much problems.
>
> However, trying to insmod the resulting object gives the following
> error message:
>
> unknown ADD relocation: 5
We only add relocation to the kernel loader as we need them... since
this relocation has never been generated so far for in kernel modules it
wasn't added...
BTW. What is this evil^H^H^H^Hbinary driver you are talking about ?
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-02 16:25 R_PPC_ADDR16_HI relocs in PPC modules ? Simon Vallet
2007-01-02 17:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 18:09 ` Simon Vallet
2007-01-02 20:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-03 0:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-01-03 1:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-01-02 20:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-01-03 7:01 ` Simon Vallet
2007-01-03 9:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 10:32 ` Simon Vallet
2007-01-03 20:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-02 21:31 ` Alan Modra
2007-01-03 6:49 ` [PATCH] Add support for R_PPC_ADDR16_HI relocations Simon Vallet
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