Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:23:18 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uppc kmod installation problem Message-ID: <46B31E36.2030305@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20070802124603.GC2738@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <46A8AC15.4080509@icyb.net.ua> <46B0B795.5070106@icyb.net.ua> <20070802124603.GC2738@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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on 02/08/2007 15:46 Kostik Belousov said the following:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:40:53PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 26/07/2007 17:13 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>> It seems that installation action of uppc-kmod port (do-install target)
>>> uses incorrect tool to put uppc.ko in its destination. It seems that the
>>> tool (${INSTALL_PROGRAM}) corrupts the .ko, so that it is not a valid
>>> kernel module anymore. If I put uppc.ko into /boot/kernel and do kldxref
>>> then kldxref complains about missing symbol table in uppc.ko and dumps
>>> core. If the module is loaded then it crashes my system.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, if I simply copy uppc.ko from work directory then it
>>> works ok.
>> [snip]
>>> Some system info:
>>> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64
>> [snip]
>>
>> This problem seems to be the same as the one described here:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100703
>>
>> There seems to be something special about amd64, kernel modules and
>> 'install -s' / strip.
> You cannot strip kernel modules on amd64, because modules are elf object
> files, as opposed to shared objects on all other archs. Strip strips the
> object file symbol table, that is used by the static linker and in-kernel
> linker on amd64. On the other hand, shared object contains also a dynamic
> symbol table, that is not stripped and used by in-kernel linker on !amd64.
Kostik,
would you be comfortable to apply a patch from the PR mentioned above
(or something similar) to palm/uppc-kmod port ? Current maintainer for
the port is ports@,
Thank you.
--
Andriy Gapon
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