Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:29:29 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: A proposal - binary |
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:21:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > So how does this differ from the twice yearly recycling of the fixed > driver ABI discussion ? > > We have a facility for loading binary blobs into the kernel built from > source, its called insmod.
I think that the issue Zach tried to cover is the current inability to keep the same binary module across multiple kernel versions. That's why he compared modules<->kernel to ELF<->glibc. In that sense, he's right. I'm very happy when I find that old binaries I built with gcc-2.7.2 in 1997 still run under my glibc-2.3.6 without any need to rebuild (and potentially rebuild gcc-2.7.2 first).
> Alan
Willy
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