Re: sparc: cannot load any modules with 2.6.17-rc3

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From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:27:22 +0100

> Sadly, no. I can try to do some of the easier things, but fixing
> something like the esp driver without the esp&dma datasheets is
> beyond me I'm afraid :).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR_53C9x

The DMA programming manual is really not that necessary to
understand the chip.

> Yes, these actually fail to load. Maybe it's a memory corruption in module.c
> somehow: if I make too many debugging changes in apply_relocate_add() the
> problem disappears.
> I'm trying different things now to make it show me the failing section and
> symbol when it fails. I'll post again once I have more details.

Are you using Debian's gcc-4.1 compiler to build kernels?

That has already had problems reported with it wrt. miscompiling
the simplest kernel code such as the SUN disk label checksum
calculation in fs/partitions/sun.c and the similar code in
util-linux's fdisk.
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