Fred,
> I've downloaded the lastest sane (1.0.5) or my PowerPC Linux
> system. The systems is glibc 2.1.3 and kernel 2.4.6 debian
> based. I get errors saying inb and outb are undefined.
We had someone else on the list who had a very similar problem. You
are running debian with a 2.4.x kernel (i.e. you built it yourself),
and I have the same set-up (on i386 and alpha machines though).
Note that a debian install has its own /usr/include/asm and
/usr/include/linux directories, so if you build your own kernel, it
might be worth replacing them by symbolic links to the two relevant
directories in /usr/src/linux/include (I hope you keep your kernel
source there).
> A check through the kernl header files yields no definitions
> except in one of the asm headers. Including the asm
> header did not work so I suspect the problem was at
> the linker stage.
Is it the ld command that complains? If so, you have the same problem
as that other user (can't remember their name).
> Doesn't inb and outb have something to do with the ISA bus?
> My PowerPC machine has no ISA bus.
It has to do with the stupid I/O handling on i386 machines. If you ask
me, it should not really be needed for any other architecture. Maybe
it just makes writing cross-platform stuff easier to keep it for all
platforms.
Hope this helps, any corrections are welcome.
Andras
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