Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:24:34 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option.. Message-ID: <199901172124.IAA03253@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199901171925.DAA06456@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jan 18, 1999 3:25:14 am"
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Peter Wemm wrote: > However, the thought has occurred on many occasions that it might be an > idea to make a stand on this and remove the LKM build support. It will > clean up a few interfaces. If this doesn't happen for 3.1, it's definately > on my agenda for after the branch. Converting the common LKM's to kld > modules is pretty easy, and even the ones with custom load/unload code are > not too hard. I'd be interested to get a feeling for whether this should > be done for 3.1 or later. (Remember, OSS have a KLD version now for 3.0). I'm a fan of the new KLD system, so removing LKM build support is IMHO the right thing to do. I've been working on an embedded system which boots from a 2Mb flash chip without a filesystem. Before KLDs came along, I couldn't use LKMs for I/O devices because of the overhead of having to ship GNU tools too. Now all custom code lives in KLDs which get loaded by the application which replaces init and a simple 20 line kernel config file suits all target hardware versions. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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