Subject: Re: LKM && NetBSD-1.3.3 && DEC 3000-M300X
To: None <adam@cfar.umd.edu, joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/01/1999 15:18:36
> From port-alpha-owner-ross=teraflop.com@netbsd.org Thu Apr  1 05:22:32 1999
> To: Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu>
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: LKM && NetBSD-1.3.3 && DEC 3000-M300X
> X-Emacs: 19.34
> From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
> Date: 01 Apr 1999 15:07:33 +0200
>
> Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu> writes:
>
> > Unless I'm missing something obvious, it seems to be ulteriorily
> > broken.
>
> Modload only supports a.out, but there is a patched version at
> ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/home/joda/elf-modload.tar.gz.
>
> You will also need `-mno-fp-regs' to convince gcc not to emit floating
> point ops (which doesn't work in the kernel).
>
> See also port-alpha/6149.
>
> /Johan
>

There is also a binary of Johan's ELF modloader at:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/misc/modload.{gz,readme}