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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Michael Tuexen <tuexen@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Loading modules from /boot/loader.conf
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:11:37PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> > On 10. Jul 2018, at 14:33, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:12:35PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> >> can you run on your G4:
> >> 
> >> readelf -x set_modmetadata_set /boot/kernel/kernel
> >> 
> >> This should provide a list of non-NULL pointers. However, on my G4 system
> >> this section only contains NULL pointers.
> > 
> > Mine is also all NULLs.
> 
> OK. You said that you can't reproduce the problem.

I meant that I didn't try yet because the box is used as a database server
for our pet project at $work, and I didn't want to reboot it.  I'll try to
find a chance to do this though.

> So you are able to load a kernel module via /boot/loader.conf?
> If yes, which one?

I've put xhci_load="YES" there and report upon the next reboot.

./danfe