Re: [PATCH v3 25/29] nios2: Module support

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On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:22:36 +0800, Ley Foon Tan said:
> This patch adds support for loadable modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +/*
> + * Modules should NOT be allocated with kmalloc for (obvious) reasons.
> + * But we do it for now to avoid relocation issues. CALL26/PCREL26 cannot reach
> + * from 0x80000000 (vmalloc area) to 0xc00000000 (kernel) (kmalloc returns
> + * addresses in 0xc0000000)
> + */

That's a nice scary comment to see. :)

What's the long-term plan here?

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