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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:36:28 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi.c acpi_resource.c acpivar.h
Message-ID:  <20040827153628.GE59283@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200408270700.i7R70lDZ039371@grimreaper.grondar.org>
References:  <20040826180621.GA16885@dragon.nuxi.com> <200408270700.i7R70lDZ039371@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:00:47AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > > Cool. I've made some changes to the random, mem and io modules to
> > > try to prevent the double-loaded module panic. Could you please see
> > > if this works for amd64?
> > 
> >     quynh#  kldload /boot/kernel/random.ko 
> >     kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/random.ko: Exec format error
...
> > the error message is a little weird (and deceiving) when one of these
> > .ko's doesn't load; but this is orders of orders of magnitude better than
> > panicing. 8-)
> 
> Yeah. Just to confirm, all three of the above modules were built into
> the kernel, right?

Yes.  AMD64 modules aren't auto-loadable from the loader like i386.  At
the moment it is more interesting to see how the i386 platform handles
this.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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