Re: SPARC64: Modular floppy?
"Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:25:38 +0000
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Horst von Brand wrote: > "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> said: > >>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:07:43 -0300 >>Horst von Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [...] > > >>>So, either the dependencies have to get fixed so floppy can't be modular >>>for this architecture, or the relevant functions have to move from entry.S >>>to the module. > > >>I think the former is the best solution. The assembler code really >>needs to get at floppy.c symbols. > > >>From my cursory look the stuff depending on the floppy.c symbols is just > in the floppy-related code. Can't that be just included in floppy.c? > (Could be quite a mess, but it looks like short stretches). The code in entry.S looks self-contained (to me:), so moving it somewhere else should just be a SMOP (mostly kbuild stuff).... -- ~Randy