> the problem is that the LKM's are loaded too far from the rest of the
> kernel -- so far that relative branches get truncated, so what happens
> is the LKM jumps to nowhere and goes boom.
> 
> 
> however, simonb appears to have fixed this for mips recently, and there
> may be similarly easy workarounds for other ports affected (arm and
> powerpc to my knowledge.)
Gcc-3.0 has the code to fix this for the ARM.  But I'm not about to 
suggest we import that yet!

R.