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Subject: compressed kernel modules
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Howdy,

Does the -CURRENT kldload(8), and/or loader(8), understand how to
decompress gzip/bzip kernel modules? I'm assuming it is possible, but I
haven't seen that done in the wild, or documented.

Thanks in advance.


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unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep


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