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Re: [Xen-users] Debian 4.0 Etch as domU - gentoo host

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Debian 4.0 Etch as domU - gentoo host
From: Tony Hoyle <tmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:50:14 +0100
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Petersson, Mats wrote:
> This is probably because modprobe is part of your initrd, and it's
> compiled with static libraries which didn't have TLS disabled. It makes
> sense to compile modprobe static, since it's kind of pointless to rely
> on shared libraries that reside on a disk that you can't get to until
> you've loaded the driver with modprobe!
>
modprobe on debian isn't static. The initrd has a minimal /lib on it so it doesn't need to be (in fact as far as I can tell there are no statically linked apps at all on debian apart from busybox-static, and that's optional).

Tony

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