Re: SPARC64: Modular floppy?

"Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:25:38 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.ultralinux,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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:
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> [...]
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>>>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)....

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~Randy