From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 27 13:43:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9EA37B71B for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30451DCA; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:43:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id NAA16668; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:43:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A9C1F77.4A10CF30@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:43:19 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD sources from 20000' References: <200102271136.f1RBa4R12865@gratis.grondar.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray wrote: > > Some modules need a little help - kernel modules require kernel > source to build, most modules require a minimum toolchain, and some > need specialised tools (like the kernel needs config(8) and doc/ > needs tons of ports). > 3) "KLD" kernel module. > (eg: random.ko) > 3a) "kernel" all of kernel and includes kernel modules. It may help to view kernel modules as libraries or plug-ins, even to the extend of staticly "linking" a kernel module into the kernel. This may help to untangle the cross dependencies of kld and kernel. Just a thought... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message