Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:39:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: linker/loader? (was: ELF kernel?) Message-ID: <19981006093900.U27781@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810052034140.364-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 08:35:00PM %2B0100 References: <19981005060822.B9542@nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810052034140.364-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Monday, 5 October 1998 at 20:35:00 +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > >>> They become KLD modules. >> >> How does one expand this? Kernel Loadable ??Device?? > > It was a pun on ld(1) which is the user space linker, thus "Kernel LD" > becomes KLD. And ld in turn goes back to the days when the linker (which links modules) and the loader (which got them into memory before the days of virtual memory) were the same thing. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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