KLD support in FreeBSD/AMD64

[4Front Technologies]

Tim Robbins wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:59:06PM -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>We are trying to get Open Sound System modules compiled under FreeBSD/AMD64.
>>I looked at the /usr/share/examples/kld/cdev example and it fails to link:
>>
>>ld: cdev.kld: relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared 
>>object; recompile with -fPIC
>>cdev.kld: could not read symbols: Bad value
>>
>>If I add -fPIC to the compile files (I have to remove -mcmodel=kernel and 
>>-no-redzone) then the module links but running kldload cdev.ko causes:
>>
>>kldload: unexpected relocation type 7
>>link_elf: symbol copyinstr undefined
>>
>>We are seeing the same problems in our OSS modules. So is there any work 
>>going on to add KLD support for FreeBSD/AMD64?
> 
> 
> FreeBSD -CURRENT supports modules on amd64, but 5.2.1-R and -current
> snapshots more than a few months old don't.
> 
> 
> Tim
> 

Thanks Tim. I really appreciate your help. Let's hope that the -CURRENT has 
fixed problems with the gcc compilers (-fPIC and -mcmodel=kernel problems) as well.



best regards
Dev Mazumdar

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