Portable binary modules

Jim Nance (jnance@nortelnetworks.com)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:57:29 -0500


On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:44:47PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Note btw its not enough to specify if its been tested with 2.2.5 or 2.2.12
> you also have to specify if it is egcs or gcc built. for 1 or 2gig memory
> option and/or for SMP

Yuck. I did not realize it was this bad. I knew about the SMP dependency,
but not the others.

Something I have wondered about for a while is how difficult would it be to
make SMP modules run in a non-SMP kernel. Is it as easy as having the UP
kernels provide dummy locking functions which always say they aquired a lock
but dont really try?

Thanks,

Jim

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