arla 0.8, NetBSD 1.3.2 alpha lkm

[Assar Westerlund]

John Davison  <davisoja at clarkson.edu> writes:
> clutx# modload1.19 -d -v -e xfs_mod -o /var/tmp/symbols /usr/lkm/xfs_mod.o
> ld -R /netbsd -e xfs_mod -o /var/tmp/symbols -Ttext 0 /usr/lkm/xfs_mod.o
> modload1.19: not an a.out format file
> 
> ???

It doesn't seem to be able to understand the magic numbers of your ELF
object file.

Did you ask on port-alpha if anyone has managed to build (and modload)
a kernel module on NetBSD/alpha?  Otherwise, I think you should try
building one of the dummy modules in /usr/share/lkm and see
if that works.

> > > I have another identical machine with NetBSD-current, but was unable
> > > to even compile krb4 on it.
> > Could you send me the errors you're getting?
> 
> Oops, my bad.  It's AIX 4.2.1 I could never get KTH krb4 compiled on. 

Try the krb4-980725.tar.gz snapshot.  It should work.

> xfs_dev.c: In function `xfs_devclose_common':
> xfs_dev.c:200: too few arguments to function `vfs_busy'
> xfs_dev.c: In function `xfs_uprintf_device':
> xfs_dev.c:670: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
> [...]

Try the arla-snap-19980724.tar.gz snapshot.

/assar