From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 10 20:15:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A09214DB7 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08264; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:15:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA20565; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:15:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20561; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:15:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:15:15 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KLDs In-Reply-To: <199910102202.PAA08093@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > You should note that neither QNX nor FreeBSD exhibit the above > behaviour. KLD is a linker; it allows you to link more stuff into the > kernel after it's been started. It doesn't implement a coprocess model > of any sort. Yes, I knew this for FreeBSD, and for QNX, well, Slashdot again proves to be totally unreliable. :) > Indeed it would. There's some fairly strong resistance to this being > the _only_ way that FreeBSD works, but the level of modularity you I don't think this is a good idea but it would certainly be a swank thing to see. Is it possible to compile a kernel with no filesystems supported and have the boot loader load FFS? I have built an FFS module but I have not yet had time to test it. Frankly, I am kind of afraid to for fear of trashing my system. > > Has anyone else thought about this? Is this a good idea? Is this a > > bad idea? > > Yes, Yes, Yes. Could you claify this? :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message