[OpenAFS-devel] (no subject)

[Henry B. Hotz]

>Message: 1
>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] (no subject)
>From: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
>To: Horst Birthelmer <BIRTHELM@de.ibm.com>
>Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org
>Organization:
>Date: 22 Apr 2003 19:18:30 -0400
>
>On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 09:42, Horst Birthelmer wrote:
>>  has anybody ever compiled OpenAFS on an IBM pSeries running SUSE
>>  LinuxPPC??
>>
>>  I'm getting everything compiled but I'm not able to insert the module
>>  afterwards.
>>  The reported error is: "ELF file libafs-1.2.9.o not for this
>>  architecture".
>>  (as you can see from the error above I'm doing this with OpenAFS 1.2.9 but
>>  I get the same error with 1.2.8)
>
>I'm guessing the kernel here is ppc64 while the userspace is ppc32.
>You'll probably need to tweak things to use a ppc64 cross compiler for
>building the kernel bits while building the userspace with the normal
>ppc32 compiler. 
>
>Jeremy

 From discussions on netbsd/port-macppc this doesn't make sense.  I 
think the 64-bit is a strict superset and there is no restriction on 
mixing the "modes".  Even mixing the modes inside the kernel only 
means remembering to save/restore a bit extra on context switches.
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