On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > What still needs to be done is adding module supprt for 64-bit also - but > > that's not functional in 2.4 either and I have no plans to implement > > 64-bit modules in 2.4. > > AFAIK, what would be needed for 2.4 is an update to modutils, not the > kernel itself. It can be done any time provided the interested party > writes appropriate code. You're right, for 2.4 modutils would need to be updated since the entire relocation is done in userspace. The work that needs to be done on userspace rsp. kernel utilities is similar though - 80% of the relocation code in 2.6 were taken from the old modutils; the remaining 20% were needed rewriting since the kernel environment for the relocation code is different than in modutils. In short, once 64-bit modules are working for the one kernel version it's going to be easy to support the other also. Ralf
