Chris Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While porting the cross server stuff to cats I stumbled upon an issue
> with the loader (well currently I've not got anything working yet but) 
> It seems that modules/drivers that use softfloat functions end up with
> missing symbols in them.  I suspect this is something to do with how we
> link them, but I'm not certain.
> 
> What I'm really not sure of is the right way to get the softfloat
> symbols into the drivers/modules.  Do I need to link the drivers with
> -lc ? (I'm surprised that doesn't happen already?)  Or should I be doing
> what's currently done for __divdf3, __divdi3, __divsf3 etc, which is to
> do a prototype, define it with #pragma weak, and then include it in the
> xf86sym.c symbol list?  Having tried the later method this seems to
> allow symbols to be resolved...
> 
> Any advice on this, is cats the only softfloat supporting arch with
> dynamically loading modules?

Yes, you need to export those symbols from the X server, by including in 
xf86sym.c.