Re: Anyone have the e1000.o driver working?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Matthew Dharm wrote:

> Hopefully my last message will get through... but basically e1000_main.c
> references and extern struct pointer, and the code generated doesn't look
> right -- it does a lui v0,0x0 and then a lw v0,0(v0) which causes a crash.

 What's wrong with it?  Doesn't it have a relocation attached (check with
`objdump -r')?  If so, that's a problem, otherwise there is nothing wrong
with it.  Since addresses of external symbols are only known at the load
time, relocations in kernel modules are resolved by insmod.

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