Re: 2.4.9-ac12 ppc ftr_fixup

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 02:39:06 EST


>Don't write any code yet, Maciej W. Rozycki has some patches for a
>similar problem in mips and his fix is nicely extensible. I just need
>confirmation that ftr_fixup needs modutils support.

Right. The feature fixup was originally intended for altivec-specific
cruft in arch/ppc/kernel/*.S, and was only later extended to a few
more things like get_cycles(). It doesn't handle modules, and that
can ideed be an issue.

I'm looking forward to your modutils. The kernel's do_cpu_ftr_fixups
function has to be modified to take the pointer & size of the fixup
section so that it can be called for modules as well.

Ben.

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