From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 4 11: 4:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B8537B678; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 11:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA92245; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:03:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:03:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Coleman Kane , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000604105336.E17973@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Would the person or person(s) interested in developing a kerneld-like, dynamic > > module (un)loader for FreeBSD please email me. I am really interested in this. > > It would be very advantageous to begin to move kld module use into the > > mainstream for all components. I'd like to do what I can to help with it. > > I thought Linux did away with thier kerneld concept. Afaik we can > currently load a kld from within kernel context, can you please > explain further what you want to do? If I understand what he's proposing correctly, he wants to develop a system in which all of the device drivers are loaded in the same way KLD's are. (I'm not a programmer, so I'd be unable to help) -- Bob "Reality is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes" - The Amityville Horror III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message