Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:11:35 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Stanley Jobson <Stanley.Jobson@gmx.ch> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KLD technical docs Message-ID: <20060329061135.GP7001@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <9531.1143531289@www098.gmx.net> References: <24143.1143531014@www098.gmx.net> <9531.1143531289@www098.gmx.net>
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Stanley Jobson wrote this message on Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:34 +0200:
> for my master thesis i am looking for technical docs about
> dynamic linking esp. about the kernel dynamic linker facility.
>
> i found some good docs about dynamic linking in general but
> nothing about KLD/LKM.
>
> are there any technical docs on KLD? I read the short chapter
> in the arch handbook but thats not much info.
>
> i am interested in docs answering the following questions:
> - how does the dynamic loading and linking work for KLDs/LKMs?
> - does this anything has to do with libbfd, libdl or rtld?
> - how are dependencies handled?
>
> technical info to LKM and dynamic linking facility of the other
> BSDs would be also interesting :)
The best technical doc is src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c... :) That
handles all the magic of SYSINIT's, sysctl's and the other magic of
kernel modules...
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