R_PPC_ADDR16_HI relocs in PPC modules ?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jan 4 07:36:43 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:32 +0100, Simon Vallet wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:58:12 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > Doh ! I've been in "contact" with that driver in a previous life... it's
> > a whole bunch of horrid C++ with windows wrappers all over... or did
> > they improve it ? It's still an ST chip ?
> 
> Well -- obviously I can't tell much about the source ;-), but it
> certainly looks like C++ to me. The last version of the driver is some
> years old, actually, so it probably hasn't changed much since you were
> "in contact" with it -- and yes, as far as I know the card still uses an
> ST chipset.
> 
> Since you're somewhat familiar with this driver, do you
> think the ELF translation approach is a viable one ?

No idea.

Ben.





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