> 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!


ah, nice.  do you know if the code can be bought down to our 2.95 tree?


.mrg.