Subject: Re: Do LKMs work *at*all* on powerpc platforms?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/15/2000 19:17:33
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:

: Well, gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> has had problems. He made
: prototypes of all kernel functions with __attribute__ ((long-call)), and
: made an lkm. He was still left with truncated references to memcpy - the
: module still had it as an external symbol, and had used the too-small
: branch option.

If it's used as a command-line option, it should affect all references (so
long as the implementation is written properly).

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