On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:54:58 -0700,
Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:27:22AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>> >
>> >> 2.4.9-ac12 has new ppc code for CPU feature fixups. The ftr_fixup code
>> >> only handles entries that are built into the kernel. timex.h defines
>> >> get_cycles() using ftr_fixup and get_cycles() is used all over the
>> >> place, including in modules. AFAICT we need to add modutils support
>> >> for ftr_fixup.
>Hmm.. I'm guessing no one's tried get_cycles from a module on a 601 in
>ages...
OK, so insmod needs to pass the ftr_fixup data for modules into the
kernel, I will add the ftp_fixup section as archdata in insmod. Do not
code any kernel change to use ftr_fixup in modules until Maciej W.
Rozycki's patch for module archdata handling is in.
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