Subject: Re: Loadable Kernel Modules - modload fails?
To: None <hhh@mit.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/03/1996 13:44:26
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:05:52 -0500 
 Henry Houh <hhh@dill.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

 > I am trying to use modload to load some kernel modules.  Is this
 > supported under the alpha port?  I am still using 1.1.  I had to
 > change modload (-A to -R, -T to -Ttext) to get it to use the correct
 > flags for ld, but now modload doesn't properly recognize the output of
 > ld as valid.

LKMs only work on ports that use a.out.  The alpha is not one of those
ports (neither is the pmax).  This is a bug in the LKM system, but it
is going to take a bit of engineering to fix...

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