Re: re freezing powerpc

[Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>]

Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> 
> Previously Loic Prylli wrote:
> > Yes Alpha has (unfortunately) a lot of subarchs.
> 
> Am I correct that alpha does need subarchitecture support from modutils?
> I added support for that for the m68k architecture, but so far other
> architectures don't use it.
> 
> Wichert.

As I understand it, Alpha do not need modutils subarchitecture
support, all Alpha subarchs are very similar and actually share the
same module and device set. But the kernel and each module need to
have distinct _binaries_ for each archs, (though the 2.1 kernels
should change this situation).


Loic