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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 13:22:40 +1000."
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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:44:45 +1000
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In message <22165.996722560@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> you write:
> The IA64 use of descriptors for function pointers has bitten ksymoops.
> For those not familiar with IA64, &func points to a descriptor
> containing { &code, &data_context }.  System.map contains the address
> of the code, /proc/ksyms contains the address of the descriptor.
> insmod needs the descriptor address, ksymoops and debuggers need the
> code address, /proc/ksyms needs to contain both addresses, with one of
> them prefixed by a special character.

Eewwww....

	How about just adding /proc/ksyms-ia64 with the code pointers
which contains the ia64 code addresses required by ksymoops and
debuggers.  These are, after all, less vital than insmod.

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK