[BusyBox] insmod ppc quickfix

[Matthias Fuchs]

Hi Magnus,

your patched seems to be fine. I applied it against the current CVS tree without any problems.

Thanks



Magnus Damm wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've investigated the insmod-powerpc-global-variable-problem a bit,
> and I found three possible problems: 
> 
> 1) R_PPC_ADDR32 is not handled correctly.
> 2) tlb tables are linked lists in the powerpc.
>    The current busybox implementation only support single elements.
> 3) archdata "__dbe_table" is not used by the busybox implementation.
> 
> The attached patch will fix 1), and that is probably the bug that
> has given you headache. Sorry about that.
> I'm not sure what effect 2) and 3) has.
> 
> I am working on a insmod megapatch which fixes all the problems above.
> 
> Please test the attached patch. 
> 
> Thanks /
> 
> magnus
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --- busybox-0.60.3/insmod.c	Sat Apr 27 06:12:55 2002
> +++ busybox-0.60.3-insmod_quickfix/insmod.c	Wed May 22 14:59:49 2002
> @@ -825,8 +825,6 @@
>  	case R_386_32:	
>  #elif defined(__mc68000__) 
>  	case R_68K_32:
> -#elif defined(__powerpc__)
> -	case R_PPC_ADDR32:
>  #elif defined(__mips__)
>  	case R_MIPS_32:
>  #endif
> @@ -857,6 +855,10 @@
>  	case R_PPC_ADDR16_LO:
>  		*(unsigned short *)loc = v;
>  		break;
> +
> +	case R_PPC_ADDR32:
> +               	*loc = v;
> +                break;
>  #endif
>  
>  #if defined(__mips__)
> 


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