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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where is it written?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:55:20 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7577.974008520@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:36:42 MDT." <14862.11370.341594.433057@wire.cadcamlab.org>

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:36:42 -0600 (CST), 
Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> wrote:
>You mean trivial changes to understand the ELF magic number for a
>riscoid-ABI x86 object.  (You wouldn't lie to the linker and call them
>SysV objects, now, would you?)  Also gdb and libbfd need to know about
>stack frames.  Admittedly none of this is strictly necessary just to
>link and boot a kernel.

Any ABI change needs to be externalised for modules.  Otherwise symbol
versions will not detect that the kernel was compiled with -mregparm=3
but the module was compiled with parameters on stack.  Good thing this
is 2.5 material.

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-12  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-10 16:37 Where is it written? George Anzinger
2000-11-10 23:40 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-11  0:11   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-11  0:27     ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-11  1:10       ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11  1:28         ` Keith Owens
2000-11-11  1:33           ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-14  1:33             ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-11  5:17           ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-11 14:51             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 15:32       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 23:17         ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-11 23:30           ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12  4:54             ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-12  5:21               ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12  5:36                 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-12  5:55                   ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-11-12  9:35                 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-12 12:23           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-13  5:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 15:35           ` Olaf Titz
2000-11-11  1:06     ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-10 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin

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