Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:47:41 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 dokern.sh Message-ID: <20011008164741.23D08380F@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200110080343.f983htL29456@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 07 Oct 2001 02:16:05 +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.
org> said:
>
> > mlx, and twe drivers out from the installation kernel to modules. As
> > a result, we get 88 kbytes of space in kern.flp but lost 196 kbytes in
> > mfsroot.flp. Here is a detail.
>
> I found that it helps a lot if you link the modules together into a
> single kld (amortizing the overhead of the linker metadata over
> multiple modules). Just take the *.kld (NOT *.ko) from the object
> directories and link them together with `ld -Bshareable'.
Exactly! The ability to do this is why we use *.kld as an intermediate
step and why kldxref etc exist.
Cheers,
-Peter
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