From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 31 10:35:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02099 for current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacardi.torrentnet.com (plexuscom.com [207.87.46.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02093 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.torrentnet.com (localhost.torrentnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by bacardi.torrentnet.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04015; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:34:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703311834.NAA04015@bacardi.torrentnet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: bacardi.plexuscom.com: Host localhost.torrentnet.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: terry@lambert.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System In-Reply-To: <199703311712.KAA09639@phaeton.artisoft.com> Organization: Torrent Networking Technologies Corp Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:34:15 -0500 From: James da Silva Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199703311712.KAA09639@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry writes: >> >This is a hack brought on because the loader is not in kernel space. >> >This was a policy decision by the FreeBSD core team. >> >> It was? I've always advocated for the linker to be in the kernel and >> I don't recall any other core member disagreeing. The reality from my >> point of view is that this is simply the way we got the code from you. > >Garrett disagreed; this is not to say that he didn't have good reasons, >but I believe the benefits outweigh the additional size and other >issues which he raises. People should bear in mind in this discussion that the code to do the relocations on a loaded a.out file is well under 8K. FYI. Seems well worth it to me. Jaime ........................................................................... : James da Silva : Stand on my shoulders, : : Torrent Networking Technologies Corp. : not on my toes. :