SGI XFS on ppc

[Thomas Graichen]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Keith Owens wrote:

> Does ppc support modules?  I know that modutils has an obj-ppc.c file
> but I don't think I have ever seen any ppc bug reports for modutils.
> If ppc does use modutils then we need lines like this in
> arch/ppc/vmlinux.lds.
>
>   __start___ksymtab = .;        /* Kernel symbol table */
>   __ksymtab : { *(__ksymtab) }
>   __stop___ksymtab = .;
>
>   __start___kallsyms = .;       /* All kernel symbols */
>   __kallsyms : { *(__kallsyms) }
>   __stop___kallsyms = .;
>
> The first section is standard for any arch that supports modules but is
> not in pppc for some reason.  The second section is part of kallsyms.
> Most of the kallsyms code needs to be wrapped in #ifdef but
> arch/xxx/vmlinux.lds, include/modules.h and kernel/module.c do not,
> they are global to provide a standard userspace ABI, independent of
> kernel options.

i think this is something for the ppc guys ...

> If ppc does not support modules then forget the above update.  However
> the code in kernel/module.c that refers to kallsyms entries should not
> be compiled when CONFIG_MODULES=n is set, why is it being compiled?

maybe due to the "||" (kernel/modules.c) ?

#if defined(CONFIG_MODULES) || defined(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)

t

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