Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:50:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan for integrating Secure RPC -- comments wanted Message-ID: <199612162250.PAA02243@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <12149.850751059@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Dec 16, 96 04:44:19 pm
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> >Do we really want to make people recompile the kernel to get DES support? > > Not really. > > The trouble is that we cannot load a LKM until we have a RW fs :-( Because the kernel doesn't know its own symbols, and because the LKM external reference relocation is done in user space, when it should be done in system space. Not because the idea itself requires a RW FS, but because (my) broken implementation from early 1994 uses the user space ld to build an object. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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