Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 16:01:06 +0530 From: A JOSEPH KOSHY <koshy@india.hp.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) Message-ID: <199601031031.AA299195067@fakir.india.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:39:07 %2B0100." <199601030839.JAA19302@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>>>>> JW == Joerg Wunsch <<<<< jw> needed only once (at boot time) or rarely (diagnostics code), thus jw> freeing up valuable physical memory for more important things. Well, it would be nice to be able to delay loading a driver till needed. Even nicer would be the ability to unload and reload a driver on the fly. This would allow customers to update portions of the kernel without having to bring the system down, (well, in theory, anyway :)). If I remember right Unixware had the ability to auto-unload an driver which had been inactive for a while, freeing up memory and kernel resources. Not so sure about SCO or Solaris ... Can someone explain why we need ELF or its equivalent for this to be feasible? Koshy
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