Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:37:50 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loading modules from within the kernel.... Message-ID: <394992FE.AD77955E@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006141411230.4094-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Of course, this brings to light the fact that I don't think we support > > "soft" dependancies, ie. load-this-if-you-can-but-don't-fail-if-you-can't. > > Oh, err, uh, that's gotta be fixed. Let the caller/invoker of a load action > decide what the policy for failure is. That won't work on loader(8), since no code gets executed at that point. > > The current school of thought for solving this would be to have your > > firmware load as a plain container in a fashion similar to the way we > > load the MFS root image, and then use preload_search_by_type() to locate > > it. > > Does this approach use functions/APIs that are likely to not change for a > while? AFAIK, they haven't changed since splash screen & loader(8) were first introduced, back in... october or november 1998. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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