Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932342AbWBFT41 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:56:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932341AbWBFT41 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:56:27 -0500 Received: from lug-owl.de ([195.71.106.12]:27341 "EHLO lug-owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932342AbWBFT40 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:56:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:56:24 +0100 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: Martin Mares Cc: Yaroslav Rastrigin , Joshua Kugler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Mailhot , David Chow Subject: Re: Linux drivers management Message-ID: <20060206195624.GJ19232@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Mares , Yaroslav Rastrigin , Joshua Kugler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Mailhot , David Chow References: <1139250712.20009.20.camel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <200602061002.27477.joshua.kugler@uaf.edu> <200602062217.19697.yarick@it-territory.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BEa57a89OpeoUzGD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.6.12.3lug-owl X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net X-Echelon-Enable: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll X-TKUeV: howto poison arsenous mail psychological biological nuclear warfare test the bombastical terror of flooding the spy listeners explosion sex drugs and rock'n'roll User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1822 Lines: 54 --BEa57a89OpeoUzGD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2006-02-06 20:39:37 +0100, Martin Mares wrote: > > And then think, why do you need to _build_ drivers in the first place. > > Wouldn't it be better to have one vmware.ko which insmod's with all > > 2.6 versions , from 2.6.0 to 2.6.16-rc2 , and throw "upgrade pain" > > away completely ?=20 >=20 > Well, you want the vmware.ko to contain machine code for at least 17 > different architecture the kernel runs on? ;-) I think we will first need to hack binutils. The last time I heared about it, Fat Binaries weren't implemented (only containing object code for two different architectures), let alone for _all_ architectures... Even getting all GCCs to compile with the same version would be an adventure... MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 = _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg = _ _ O f=C3=BCr einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=C3=BCrger" | im Internet! | i= m Irak! O O O ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)= ); --BEa57a89OpeoUzGD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD56noHb1edYOZ4bsRAo8uAKCK0igW4Hzii+IV3MtP6CsY8034CQCbBUZ/ od75dbj9hAaWzlY+vin5kg8= =Vps+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BEa57a89OpeoUzGD-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/