From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:06:31 +0100 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: apple mach-o library and ppc kernel modules. Message-ID: <20031209100631.GA5551@iliana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Sven Luther Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hello, I am trying to make a build of the bewan adsl pci modem driver for powerpc. The driver in question comes with a proprietary binary only soft-ADSL library, and the driver actually provides a wrapper on top of this one. Bewan doesn't actually have access to the source of it, and i was not able to convince them to convince STm to make a ppc build of the soft-ADSL library. That said, they have a macos X copy of this binary library, which is a : Mach-O object ppc If it would have been an elf object file, using it in the kernel would have been possible, but i don't know how (and if) it is possible to convert this Mach-O object file to something usable by the kernel. Other alternatives would be to use some kind of emulator to run the x86 version of the library, but i guess this is not possible kernel-side. Any hint of information about this would be welcome. Or simply links documentation on the Mach-O object format too, but i guess google will help me out there. BTW, it is also compiled with an apple patched gcc 2.95, so i guess i will run in problems when using a gcc 3.3 compiled kernel, but probably in a later iteration of the macos X build, they will also use gcc 3.3, since apple is using that now. Friendly, Sven Luther ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/