Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:21:43 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> Cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Elf Kernel Message-ID: <199811030521.NAA21942@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:36:27 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811021935420.19187-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
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Brian Feldman wrote:
> Ahhhh, that's where it is! I have no good idea on how to allow, with this
> code, lkm's and kld's to coexist.... so is it time to completely phase out
> lkm's yet?
I think the best way is to have mount(2) initiate a kldload if needed. We
will need this functionality sooner or later. If mount(2) does it, we can
garbage collect unused, unmounted filesystems after a while and unload
them.
> Brian Feldman
>
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, John Hay wrote:
>
> > > Be sure to let me know when ELF kernels can autoload kld modules like the
> > > current a.out kernel does with lkm's.
> >
> > It's not the kernel that loads them. Go and look in lib/libc/gen/getvfsent.
c
> >
> > John
> > --
> > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
> >
>
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Cheers,
-Peter
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