Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 15:40:28 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel w/o source? [MOD_DECL in lkm.h] Message-ID: <199701070440.PAA04955@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199701070300.UAA13646@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 6, 97 08:00:51 pm"
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > Of course, you are free to unbreak all the currently broken LKMs. :) > > Many people often ask for what they could do in the FreeBSD project -- > > well that's one that could be done: fix the LKM mechanism. > > Go to ELF, and I will fix the LKM mechanism. > > Go to ELF and support page control attributes and kernel paging, and > I will make some NT drivers load (and work) under FreeBSD. I'm running ELF on NetBSD/Alpha. Does that count? I guess not. > > > [blows dust of old Motorola system] Now, how do I boot this SysV thingy? > > > Sigh. It still works, damn! > > > > C'mon, it doesn't have LKMs either, only a bunch of .a/.o files. > > I have an LKM implementation for SVR3/SVR4. All it takes is a GCC > to generate PIC code for it, and you need to write a pseudodevice > (called /dev/lkm) to push the data into the kernel. USL claims > they own it because I changed a few lines of code on it in 1995 while > employed by Novell before Novell bought USL. My old SysV system is there strictly for support these days. Occasionally the hardware gets a run under VxWorks. The rest of the time it is turned off because it's too noisy. That's a feature these modern machines don't have: a power supply that indicates processor load. 8-) > Terry Lambert -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137
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