Greetings. I would like to officially announce patches to binutils and friends that fix the mismatch of symbols in kernel modules compiled for MIPS architectures that produced messages like these below: dummy.o: local symbol gcc2_compiled. with index 10 exceeds local_symtab_size 10 dummy.o: local symbol __gnu_compiled_c with index 11 exceeds local_symtab_size 10 dummy.o: local symbol __module_kernel_version with index 12 exceeds local_symtab_size 10 They are available at (ftp://ftp.cotw.com/pub/linux/nino/toolchain/) and are made against the official binutils/gcc/glibc straight out of CVS snapshots made on 03292001. The most important patch is of course the one made to binutils. The patch to GCC fixes the error that some people are seeing with a missing 'atexit' symbol when cross compiling glibc. You must update to GCC out of CVS in order to fix this issue AFAIK. The GCC patch was done by HJ Lu and not myself. This patch has been tested for a 32-bit toolchain configured for little-endian. It currently does not compile for big endian and 64-bit architectures. The reason for this is what I would like to discuss with everyone. Without the binutils patch, all binaries compiled for MIPS/Linux will be IRIX flavored which was the whole problem. I would now like to make 'elf[32|64]_trad[little|big]mips' be the official targets instead of 'elf[32|64]_[little|big]mips' which is what things currently are. This means changing of linker scripts in GLIBC as well as the Linux kernel (as far as I can tell). I would like to propose the any 'mips*-*-linux-gnu' and 'mips*el-*linux-gnu' targets be pure traditional targets WITHOUT any emulated IRIX targets which are the current 'elf[32|64]_[little|big]mips' targets. Please provide feedback, comments, etc. with justification. Thanks. -Steve I shall now put on asbestos armor and grab a LART. -- Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer Public Key: 'http://www.cotw.com/pubkey.txt' FPR1: E124 6E1C AF8E 7802 A815 FPR2: 7D72 829C 3386 4C4A E17D
