Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:51:54 -0500 From: james toy <nil@opensesame.st> To: Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KLD hello.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch Message-ID: <11dbd75e1002120751k7c7ef432m4efbe68f6fed95e8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d41814901002110506q4248fe14r3ddd637b2cfcb51f@mail.gmail.com> References: <11dbd75e1002101825u78d90ef0ufe6015045ecf788a@mail.gmail.com> <d41814901002110506q4248fe14r3ddd637b2cfcb51f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:06, Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:25 AM, james toy <nil@opensesame.st> wrote: >> Hello Hackers, >> >> =A0 =A0I am working on learning to write FreeBSD drivers; however, I hav= e >> some practice writing IOKit drivers for MacOSX (they are entirely >> different I know!). =A0The code I am working with can be found here: >> >> http://pastebin.com/m2bbb393c >> >> and I am getting the error: >> >> dontpanic# kldload ./hello.ko >> kldload: can't load ./hello.ko: Exec format error >> >> dmesg reads: >> >> dontpanic# kldload ./hello.ko >> kldload: can't load ./hello.ko: Exec format error >> >> and finally uname -a: >> >> FreeBSD dontpanic.union.edu 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1 >> r198859: Wed Feb 10 09:59:54 EST 2010 >> james@dontpanic.union.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src_klog/sys/DONTPANIC =A0amd64 >> >> any information pointing me to being able to load this driver would be >> greatly appreciated. >> >> respectfully, >> >> james toy > > I just built your code on my FreeBSD 8 box and it compiles and loads > fine. How are you compiling your code? I used this makefile > http://pastebin.com/f3ab71917 and all I typed was this: > > make > sudo make install > sudo make load > > and I get the "hello, fail" message, and then I typed > sudo make unload > > and I got the "unload fail" message. > > Andrew > Andrey was correct, param.h and kern.osreldate were not the same. thanks very much for the prompt responses. =3Djt
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