Subject: Re: Loading DSP code from an LKM
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/27/2001 17:48:03
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:22:01PM -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> In an attempt to remove all of the GPL'd bits from my ESS Allegro-1 /
> Maestro3 driver, I've decided to load the GPL'd DSP code onto the card
> from an LKM. Good idea, in theory..

Is the fact that LKMs are utterly broken on many ports (notably,
anything based on a powerpc) a concern?

(This is a gcc problem, properly. One which I really wish I had
time to comprehend and fix, as I've wanted LKMs on macppc for a
while now.)

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       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net

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