Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:15:17 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES Message-ID: <20040401151146.X5418@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20040331194651.GX567@funkthat.com> References: <20040328094048.GA40406@phantom.cris.net> <xzp8yhi5qa3.fsf@dwp.des.no><200403310129.12916.peter@wemm.org> <20040331194651.GX567@funkthat.com>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote this message on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:29 -0800: > > As a side note (but related), I've just finished the first part of a > > refurbished module loader. I had to do this for amd64, but it has > > benefits elsewhere. The main change is switching from 'cc -shared' > > format .ko files to 'ld -r' (relocatable) .ko files. The big > > consequence of this is that it becomes trivial to build a kernel out > > of .ko files. (Or at least embed .ko files into the kernel). > > Yah! You go Peter! That's what I've beeing envisioning of the kld > system shortly after it was integrated... > > This will also make kernel compiles easier since we can then just build > all the modules ONCE, and build our static kernel from that.. no longer > do we need to compile almost everything twice.. We never needed to compile almost everything twice. I used NO_MODULES=yes in /etc/make.conf to build the correct number of modules (0). Bruce
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