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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:44:13 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: devdmatch: Can't read linker file.
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Makes sense. I'd forgotten that kldxref can't do cross-platform stuff....
One could arrange to build it targeting arch X but running on the native
host and fix things that way. Nobody has care enough to do that, though
perhaps this gives us a use case for why one might want to try.

Warner

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
wrote:

>
>
> On 13 Mar 2018, at 19:12, Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I think it's only needed for kernels that are cross-built.  That's due to
> kldxref(8) being unable to handle kernels for other architectures.
>
> my case exactly.
>
> 2018-03-13 13:34 GMT+00:00 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>:
>
>> I wonder why that isn't the default, or why the linker.hints isn't at
>> least
>> created by the make installkernel step...
>>
>> Warner
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:40 AM, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a <
>> trasz@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > FWIW, it seems to be a common problem, see https://reviews.freebsd.org=
/
>> > D14534.
>> >
>> > On 0312T1027, Warner Losh wrote:
>> > > Well, is there a /boot/kernel/linker.hints?
>> > >
>> > > Warner
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il=
>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > > the above i get on arm/nanopi-neo. (it=E2=80=99s the only platform=
 I run
>> > current
>> > > > :-)
>> > > >
>> > > > cheers,
>> > > >         danny
>> > > >
>> > > >
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