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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:28:22 +1100 (EST)
From:      Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kldload: Exec format error, is 4.2 problem?
Message-ID:  <200101040528.f045SOI05021@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010104113927.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Jan 4, 2001 11:39:27 am"

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In article by Daniel O'Connor:
> On 03-Jan-01 Warren Toomey wrote:
> > # kldload /usr/local/modules/rtc.ko
> >  kldload: can't load /usr/local/modules/rtc.ko: Exec format error
> >  
> >  Is this a 4.2-thing, or have I just done something wrong? I've
> >  searched the FreeBSD mail lists for clues, with no luck.

Ok, I've found the answer. The rtc and vmware2 ports both turn this
flag on in the appropriate Makefiles:

KMODDEPS=       linux

This creates a binary file called `linux' which is linked in (?) to the
the module at compile time, e.g:

ld -Bshareable  -o vmmon_up.ko setdef0.o vmmon_up.kld setdef1.o linux

By commenting out this flag, the file `linux' isn't used, and the module
can then be loaded by kldload. Also, vmware appears to work fine.

Hope this helps someone else!

Cheers,
	Warren


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