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tjcannell
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:11 pm    Post subject: amd64 madwifi support? Reply with quote

Has anyone had any luck with madwifi support?

I can get the modules to compile, but when I modprobe them i get:

overflow in relocation type 10 val ffffffffa0290580
`wlan' likely not compiled with -mcmodel=kernel


Any ideas? Is it even possible to get these drivers working? I thought they were based on the i386 drivers, but other platforms seem to be supported.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*sigh* the drivers may not be 64bit clean. Parts of the driver (the HAL) are not open source and are distributed binary only. If you are compiling with -m64 and specifying that you are running a K8 chip, that may help. Otherwise post something to the madwifi mailing list...

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the mailing list archives:


Quote:
From: Kristopher Kersey <augustus@li...>
Re: AMD64 Support
2003-11-21 10:24

As far as I know, there is not an easy way to mix the two. We'd need a
64-bit core. I'd be happy to help with this in any way I can but money is
not a resource that I have an abundance of. From reading about the
project, it doesn't seem that getting source would be possible but I would
be willing to compile it myself and sign an NDA to move things along.

Thanks,
Kris Kersey (Augustus)
LinuxHardware.org Site Manager
augustus@li...

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Sam Leffler wrote:

> On Friday 21 November 2003 07:41 am, Kristopher Kersey wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'm interested in getting this driver ported to the AMD64 platform. Can
> > anyone direct me in how I would go about this with the format of this
> > driver?
>
> Can you mix ia32 code in a 64-bit kernel? (I'm assuming the kernel is 64-bit)
> If so then I'd expect you can use the existing HAL. Otherwise it'll take
> time to setup the toolchain and build stuff with the right parameters. This
> happens fastest when someone steps up to pay for my time.
>
> Sam
Quote:
From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@st...>
Re: AMD64 Support
2003-11-21 09:42

Hi Kris.

> I'm interested in getting this driver ported to the AMD64 platform. Can
> anyone direct me in how I would go about this with the format of this
> driver?

What's definately needed is an AMD64 compiled HAL and such a beast does
not exist yet as far as I know. I'm sure they'll get around to it
eventually but the excellent crew doing it are pretty overworked right
now.

// STefan

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