On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:27:46PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > Not in 2.4.20 nor 2.4.21-rc6 from Marcelo, must be a mips local change. > I strongly suggest that you get rid of it, there is no good reason to > emulate the 32 bit module syscalls on a 64 bit machine. modutils is > pure Linux and there is absolutely no justification for emulating 32 > bit versions of modutils when the user can install the 64 bit version > of modutils instead. 32 bit emulation is a crutch to let binary only > programs work when you do not have the source to rebuild to 64 bit, by > definition we have the source to modutils. Until very recently there was no 64-bit userland. > IA64 and x86_64 make no attempt to emulate 32 bit modutils. sparc64, > ppc64 and s390x all pass the data straight to the 64 bit kernel code, > they require the user space modutils to supply 64 bit data. Emulation > is a waste of time. The code simply does the sparc64 thing. Heck, it is the sparc64 code with minor changes. Ralf
