Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:03:46 +0200 From: stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KLD technical docs Message-ID: <20060329100346.95aa1e6a.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <20060329061135.GP7001@funkthat.com> References: <24143.1143531014@www098.gmx.net> <9531.1143531289@www098.gmx.net> <20060329061135.GP7001@funkthat.com>
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> > 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... sure ;-) ... but kinda low level ... so am i right that there is no higher level doc available ? thx regards, stan
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