Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:27:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How cam I be writing LKM ? Message-ID: <19981016132750.C468@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810161249200.2820-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:54:32PM %2B1000 References: <19981016121458.U468@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810161249200.2820-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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On Friday, 16 October 1998 at 12:54:32 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > [snip] >> The best thing to understand is: now is a very bad time to write an >> LKM. They'll be going away and replaced by KLDs when the kernel goes >> to ELF (in the next few weeks). > > This is news to me, however as i don't keep up with -current and -stable > lists, it's not really a suprise. > > Ok, so are KLD's going to be present in 3.0-RELEASE? Sort of. > Is there going to be better dox available for them than were present > on lkm's? Probably not :-) > And where can I get some information on them now? Peter Wemm seems to be spearheading the effort. We've done some mail exchange, but I haven't had time to look at it in detail. Maybe I'll write some documentation on it, but don't hold your breath. > Shucks, just when I was getting the hang of writing them too... :\ The story is that there's not much difference. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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