On Jun 11, 2004, at 4:39 AM, Ken Roberts wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm attempting to use the EV64260 kernel to load an lkm, but have had
> very little success. In fact, I can't even seem to get PMON to
> correctly load the kernel symbol table. I've even attempted to lift the
> ELF loader code from the NetBSD source, but that got me pretty much the
> same result as the PMON loader. The kernel loads
> and runs correctly, but the symbol table is completely hosed (running
> 'nm /dev/ksyms' yields lots of garbage along with what appear to be
> some valid symbols).

Try using SYMTAB_SPACE.

> Has anyone tried this, and been successful?

Yep.  All the time.

> Also, can anyone tell me why LKM support is specifically excluded from
> the evbppc ports (i.e. in sys/Makefile)?

Since evbppc support oea and ibm4xx cpus and each require their own
LKMs (due to header file differences).

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