[parisc-linux] PA8000 modutils problems

[Grant Grundler]

"M. Grabert" wrote:
> Later I tried compiling pa39 (32bit), but depmod reported
> "unhandled relocation of type 74" for each function in each module.

This is a known bug in the modutils package.

Richard Hirst had created an older (hacked 2.4.13) version of
modutils that can deal with relocation type 74. See
	ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/unofficial-debs/

and grab modutils-2.4.13-3.1rgh*


> Compiling 64bit with the (quite old) unofficial debs worked however,
> but there are some "unresolved symbols" in a few (=4) modules,
> each time the symbol is "__xchg64".

grundler <506>fgrep -n __xchg64 arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
77:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__xchg64);

Something else is wrong. you are building from CVS right?
Try "make distclean" and rebuild the 64-bit vmlinux/ from scratch.


> I'm quite sure that in former times
> all modules worked. Since these modules are not important to me
> (smbfs and some ipv6 netfilter modules) there is no hurry ;)

I'm pretty sure smbfs was recently built/tested.
It's been a while since I've heard anything about ipv6 on parisc.

> So far I'm running a 64bit kernel (because it's the only way it works),
> but I want to stick to a 32bit kernel, because they may be more stable.

I would agree. But you need to use PA11 arch for now.
In general, I think the 64-bit kernel isn't too bad though.

grant