From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 17:09:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09390 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09327 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:09:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA20134; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:39:10 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA29733; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:39:00 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981006093900.U27781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:39:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug Rabson , "David O'Brien" Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: linker/loader? (was: ELF kernel?) References: <19981005060822.B9542@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 08:35:00PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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