From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.9-ac12 ppc ftr_fixup
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:07:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21144.998881670@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:54:58 MST." <20010826195458.D1481@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:54:58 -0700,
Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:27:22AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>> >
>> >> 2.4.9-ac12 has new ppc code for CPU feature fixups. The ftr_fixup code
>> >> only handles entries that are built into the kernel. timex.h defines
>> >> get_cycles() using ftr_fixup and get_cycles() is used all over the
>> >> place, including in modules. AFAICT we need to add modutils support
>> >> for ftr_fixup.
>Hmm.. I'm guessing no one's tried get_cycles from a module on a 601 in
>ages...
OK, so insmod needs to pass the ftr_fixup data for modules into the
kernel, I will add the ftp_fixup section as archdata in insmod. Do not
code any kernel change to use ftr_fixup in modules until Maciej W.
Rozycki's patch for module archdata handling is in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-27 3:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-27 0:27 2.4.9-ac12 ppc ftr_fixup Keith Owens
2001-08-27 2:15 ` Tom Rini
2001-08-27 2:47 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-27 2:54 ` Tom Rini
2001-08-27 3:07 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-08-27 7:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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