Re: PROBLEM: Unresolved symbols of _mmx_memcpy in modules on an Athlon XP system

From: Alasdair McWilliam
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 10:30:06 EST


Hey,

Thanks for making the patch - unfortunately it had no effect. :(

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22-rc2/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o
depmod: _mmx_memcpy
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22-rc2/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
depmod: _mmx_memcpy
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22-rc2/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o
depmod: _mmx_memcpy
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.22-rc2/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o
depmod: _mmx_memcpy


... etc.

Alasdair


From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Alasdair McWilliam" <allymcw2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Unresolved symbols of _mmx_memcpy in modules on an Athlon XP system
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 04:46:45 +0200

On Thursday 14 August 2003 03:02, Alasdair McWilliam wrote:

Hi Alasdair,

> 1. PROBLEM: Unresolved symbols of _mmx_memcpy in modules on an Athlon XP
> 8. I've done research and found that people have been experiencing this
> problem from linux-2.4.0-test releases. Can someone please fix it?! Or
> point me to a patch that works? :( The server's running on a chunky kernel
> optimised for the old K6-II (i586).

urgs, for that long? surprising :)

Could you please try attached patch? Completely untested and just a guess.
Please report success/failure. Thanks

ciao, Marc
<< mmx_memcpy-fix.patch >>

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