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alex writes:
 > ahhhh. That solved the problem. 
 > What is the technical reason for having to load the osf1 module first ?

Linux/alpha uses the same ABI as OSF/1 for a number of functions,
since they bootstrapped themselves from OSF/1 on alpha and never
bothered to go fully native.  This ABI is already provided by our
osf1.ko module.

The problem is that the osf1.ko module is SUPPOSED to be automatically
loaded as a dependancy of the linux module.  I've asked the person who
wrote the module dependancy code for help on this, but he's moved on
to other things and has never answered.  If somebody wants to look
into this, that would be great.  I've never been able to figure it
out.

Drew

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