I created an NFS disk using devrocket 2.03, copied the kernel image from a devrocket build to the system.ace.  I booted the ml403 board and did an nfs mount.  I copied the kernel directory created under the devrocket 2.03 kernel project into /usr/src/linux

  I created a simple module:
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root@ml403:/home/moduletest# cat moduletest.c

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Test Kernel Module");
MODULE_AUTHOR("wade maxfield ( maxfield@ctelcom.net)");
MODULE_LICENSE("$LICENSE$");

static int moduletest_init_module(void)
{
        printk( KERN_DEBUG "Module moduletest init\nHello World!\n" );
        return 0;
}

static void moduletest_exit_module(void)
{
        printk( KERN_DEBUG "Module moduletest exit\nGoodbye Cruel World!\n" );
}

module_init(moduletest_init_module);
module_exit(moduletest_exit_module);
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   This has compiled under RHEL 4.0 and worked.

   if I go do a build on the ml403 board I get the following (ignore the time problems)
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root@ml403:/home/moduletest# make
make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 1.2e+09 s in the future
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10_mvl401-ml40x/build SUBDIRS=/home/moduletest modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux'
Makefile:503: .config: No such file or directory
make[1]: Warning: File `/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/Makefile' has modification time 1.2e+09 s in the future
make[2]: Warning: File `scripts/Makefile.lib' has modification time 1.1e+09 s in the future
  CC [M]  /home/moduletest/moduletest.o
/bin/sh: line 1: scripts/basic/fixdep: cannot execute binary file
make[2]: *** [/home/moduletest/moduletest.o] Error 126
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/moduletest] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux'
make: *** [default] Error 2
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    I think that "fixdep" was created as x86.  Any suggestions as to getting fixdep to be powerpc executable?

thanks,
wade