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Subject: Re: Loading modules with KB920X panics
From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 10:02 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm building a custom module for KB920X and it panics when loading 
> because structures like Elf32_Rel and Elf32_Rela are not aligned.
> 
> I added __packed keyword and the errors seems to be going away.
> 
> Any clues what is wrong?
> 
> .ko file can be supplied.
> 
> FreeBSD-current
> 

We load .ko modules on our at91rm92 stuff at work (although I haven't
tested anything newer than 10.0 mid-last year).  

It seems odd that the reloc info would be unaligned.  The ldscript
should align the start of the section, and it should stay aligned after
that.

-- Ian