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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Where is it written? 
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:36:42 -0600 (CST), 
Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> wrote:
>You mean trivial changes to understand the ELF magic number for a
>riscoid-ABI x86 object.  (You wouldn't lie to the linker and call them
>SysV objects, now, would you?)  Also gdb and libbfd need to know about
>stack frames.  Admittedly none of this is strictly necessary just to
>link and boot a kernel.

Any ABI change needs to be externalised for modules.  Otherwise symbol
versions will not detect that the kernel was compiled with -mregparm=3
but the module was compiled with parameters on stack.  Good thing this
is 2.5 material.

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