On 7/30/07, Mark Fortescue <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Julian Calaby wrote: > > > On 7/29/07, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The floppy driver cannot be built as a module on sparc32, you must > >> build it in statically because it references an interrupt handler > >> which must be coded in assembler which therefore cannot be easily > >> exported to modules. > > > > Stupid question, but: Why is it possible to select it to compile as a > > module when it cannot? > > > > Because no one has got arround to fixing the build option :-). > Sparc32 is only partially maintained at the moment so little things like > this get left out of updates. I'll put together a patch tonight or tomorrow then =) Speaking of maintenance for sparc32, I'm willing to test any patches for it that'll be testable on a headless SS10, providing that people don't mind having a long (~2 weeks) turnaround time on them. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
