On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 07:41:48AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:33:06PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:07:13AM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: > > > I decided to try btrfs on one of my alphas and got a surprise - btrfs > > > module does not load: > > > > Confirmed on a PWS 433au running 4.19.0-rc6 with latest "sid" toolchain. > > Known and long-standing problem in the Alpha kernel module loader. > Requires extra code implmented to support loading such large modules > which no one has done. Workaround is to build the kernel with such > modules (e.g. radeon, btrfs) in-built.
ACK on the workaround. Never noticed the problem with, per your example, the radeon driver because I seldom build a driver as a module for a piece of hardware (or filesystem type) that's present at boot and won't be removed. --Bob
