From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 02:53:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E344416A4CE; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 02:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F8743D1F; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 02:53:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6I2raBw029067; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 19:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i6I2rYgK029065; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 19:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 19:53:34 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: 4Front Technologies Message-ID: <20040718025334.GD1070@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <40F70C3A.5020300@opensound.com> <20040716063500.GA23719@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <40F7FBA1.30602@opensound.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40F7FBA1.30602@opensound.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KLD support in FreeBSD/AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 02:53:37 -0000 On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:00:33AM -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote: > Thanks Tim. I really appreciate your help. Let's hope that the -CURRENT has > fixed problems with the gcc compilers (-fPIC and -mcmodel=kernel problems) > as well. Its not a problem with the GCC compiler. Our old KLD design requires relocations and a memory model that is in compatable with the AMD64 platform. Peter Wemm redeisnged our modules on AMD64 such that they are pretty much just ELF .o's. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)