Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 08:21:57 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: masta@wifibsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compressed kernel modules Message-ID: <20030928.082157.55722541.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <10569.12.238.113.137.1064709820.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org> References: <10569.12.238.113.137.1064709820.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org>
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"masta" <masta@wifibsd.org> writes:
: 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.
Not really. The boot loader loader can. Without help, kldload can't.
However, I have a small script that does a simple:
#!/bin/sh
cp /modules/$1.ko.gz /tmp
gunzip /tmp/$1.ko.gz
kldload /tmp/$1.ko
rm /tmp/$1.ko
Warner
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