From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7390DDDED4 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:37:49 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: R_PPC_ADDR16_HI relocs in PPC modules ? From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Simon Vallet In-Reply-To: <20070103113238.0d99b015.linux-ppc@castalie.org> References: <20070102172554.7a94cd37@mlejnas.priv.castalie.org> <1167770486.6165.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070103080151.214ebb62@mlejnas.priv.castalie.org> <1167818293.6165.143.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070103113238.0d99b015.linux-ppc@castalie.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:36:43 +1100 Message-Id: <1167856603.6165.145.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:32 +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:58:12 +1100 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Doh ! I've been in "contact" with that driver in a previous life... it's > > a whole bunch of horrid C++ with windows wrappers all over... or did > > they improve it ? It's still an ST chip ? > > Well -- obviously I can't tell much about the source ;-), but it > certainly looks like C++ to me. The last version of the driver is some > years old, actually, so it probably hasn't changed much since you were > "in contact" with it -- and yes, as far as I know the card still uses an > ST chipset. > > Since you're somewhat familiar with this driver, do you > think the ELF translation approach is a viable one ? No idea. Ben.