From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 23:04:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635F716A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:04:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BE543D2F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:04:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dev@opensound.com) Received: from [192.1.2.22] (c-24-127-17-145.we.client2.attbi.com[24.127.17.145]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20040715230411013003hvtte> (Authid: opensound); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:04:11 +0000 Message-ID: <40F70D67.80905@opensound.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:04:07 -0700 From: 4Front Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: conrads@cox.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone compose music using any of theportsfromthe/ports/audio collection in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:04:12 -0000 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Speaking of which, I was browsing 4Front's site the other day and was a > little disappointed to see that even the existing FreeBSD support is > not available for amd64. Is that likely to change anytime in the > future? > Hi Conrad, I just got FreeBSD/AMD64 installed however the KLD support isn't working or implemented. Just to make sure that it wasn't an OSS issue, I tried using the /usr/share/examples/kld/cdev as a test to see and it fails as well. I just asked a question on freebsd-amd64 to see if anybody had ideas: > We are trying to get Open Sound System modules compiled under FreeBSD/AMD64. > I looked at the /usr/share/examples/kld/cdev example and it fails to link: > > ld: cdev.kld: relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > cdev.kld: could not read symbols: Bad value > > If I add -fPIC to the compile files (I have to remove -mcmodel=kernel and -no-redzone) then the module links but running kldload cdev.ko causes: > > kldload: unexpected relocation type 7 > link_elf: symbol copyinstr undefined > > We are seeing the same problems in our OSS modules. So is there any work going on to add KLD support for FreeBSD/AMD64? > So looks like OSS support for FreeBSD/AMD64 cannot progress until KLDs work. best regards Dev Mazumdar ----------------------------------------------------------- 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, Culver City, CA 90232, USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 URL: www.opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0496 Email: info@opensound.com -----------------------------------------------------------