From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 00:49:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25882 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25877 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 00:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id JAA22779; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:48:21 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:47:59 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Mike Smith cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, forrie@forrie.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD - what's the idea? In-Reply-To: <199812012346.PAA01088@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What are the (rough) plans for this mechanism? > > Convert the entire kernel into an aggregation of KLD modules. Stick > them together in interesting and versatile ways (eg. at build time to > create a monolithic kernel, or at runtime to load/unload drivers, etc.). ... unload probe/init code when it is no longer needed. Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message