Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:04:49 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: james toy <nil@opensesame.st> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, David Hemmendinger <hemmendd@union.edu> Subject: Re: KLD hello.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch Message-ID: <4B73AC11.7070809@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <11dbd75e1002101825u78d90ef0ufe6015045ecf788a@mail.gmail.com> References: <11dbd75e1002101825u78d90ef0ufe6015045ecf788a@mail.gmail.com>
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james toy wrote: > Hello Hackers, > > I am working on learning to write FreeBSD drivers; however, I have > some practice writing IOKit drivers for MacOSX (they are entirely > different I know!). The code I am working with can be found here: > > http://pastebin.com/m2bbb393c > > and I am getting the error: > > dontpanic# kldload ./hello.ko > kldload: can't load ./hello.ko: Exec format error > > dmesg reads: > > dontpanic# kldload ./hello.ko > kldload: can't load ./hello.ko: Exec format error > > and finally uname -a: > > FreeBSD dontpanic.union.edu 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1 > r198859: Wed Feb 10 09:59:54 EST 2010 > james@dontpanic.union.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src_klog/sys/DONTPANIC amd64 > > any information pointing me to being able to load this driver would be > greatly appreciated. > That error is a sort of catch-all. But the kernel linker should put some more specific information out in the kernel console/dmseg. so 'dmesg' may help you if you have something like a bad symbol. > respectfully, > > james toy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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