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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:29:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Booting Elf Kernel 
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So should we take the VFS loading out of libc and add it to mount? Or
should there be a wrapper function in libc, getkldbyname (char *name) and
return "/modules/name.ko"?

Brian Feldman

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Peter Wemm wrote:

> 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
> --
> Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>   Netplex Consulting
> "No coffee, No workee!" :-)
> 
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