Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:56:24 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Linux drivers management |
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On Mon, 2006-02-06 20:39:37 +0100, Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> 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 ? > > 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
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