On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:32:14AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 14.04.2008 [11:06:45 +1000], David Gibson wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:20:49PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > > On 11.04.2008 [14:28:46 -0700], Eric B Munson wrote:
> > > > Building on IA64 currently fails because elflink is not supported.
> > > > This patch
> > > > sets up a NO_ELFLINK define in the IA64 section of the Makefile and a
> > > > check
> > > > in setup_libhugetlbfs that will skip the elflink calls on IA64.
> > >
> > > Hrm, if you do this, the same thing is going to be needed in the sparc64
> > > section. Really, you should look to modify the ELF32/ELF64 defines to do
> > > the right thing on ia64/sparc64. I think we just skip building elflink.o
> > > for both because we don't define either of those macros.
> >
> > Hrm. We should be able to make elflink work on sparc64. Unlike ia64
> > it doesn't have a peculiar address space setup that makes it
> > impossible to do this in the usual way. Now that we have the
> > linker-script free elflink stuff we won't even have the hassle of
> > writing linker scripts.
>
> This is true, but I think may be overkill for 1.3? We haven't had
> sparc64 support yet, and I don't think I'll have the time to work on it
> in the short-term. And with 2.0's scriptless relinking, we shouldn't
> need to worry about it.
Of course.
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