Subject: Re: loadable device driver
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/03/2001 13:35:05
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:33:19PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <20010502202432.B22047@beverly.kleinbus.org> you write:
> >On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:35:30PM +0200, Jarom=EDr Dolecek wrote:
> >> Bharani Chadalavada wrote:
> >> > But it is a bit disappointing to know that lkm is broken. Can you be=
 more
> >> > specific? What part of it is broken?Is it broken only in netbsd-curr=
ent or in
> >> > netbsd 1.5??
> >>=20
> >> It's broken on NetBSD/mips only, it has never worked there.
> >
> >I think and /arm32 (don't know about /arm26) and /powerpc.
>=20
> FWIW, it's not broken for this reason on arm26 (the arm26 address space is
> small enough that relative branches can reach everywhere), but since I
> haven't tested it, I expect there are other, less fundamental problems.

Thats what I suspected, but I'm no ARM man.

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