Thanks for the information.. that is pretty much what I had figured. I had got away with just compiling the module and having one module for all hardwares up to 2.8.3. Steve Timm ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 timm at fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific Computing Section Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group Lead of Computing Farms Team On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > Hi Steven: > > * Steven Timm <timm at fnal.gov> [2005-02-24 11:08:52 -0600]: > > > > Since version 2.8.8 of i2c and lm_sensors, I am discovering > > that the kernel modules are different sizes when compiled under > > i686 and under athlon architectures. And what is compiled on > > I took a look through lm_sensors2 CVS... I don't see anything that > should cause new behavior in this regard since 2.8.7. > > > i686 doesn't work on athlon, and vice versa. Is this supposed > > to be happening? Is there any way to compile a generic i386 > > version that works on both? > > When you compile the kernel modules from the i2c or lm_sensors2 packages, > you will need to have the kernel source available and configured for the > target system. IOW, the i2c and lm_sensors2 modules build differently > (686 vs. athlon) because the kernel source on the systems is configured > differently. > > (At least, that's what I speculate is happening in your case.) > > I don't think there's any way to reliably build the modules to work > in both, unless your base kernel is also configured for that (e.g. > the RedHat -i386 builds), but that's probably not what you really want. > > I hope that helps; Regards, > > -- > Mark M. Hoffman > mhoffman at lightlink.com > >
