Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:15:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userconfig data -> linker set -> ELF segment Message-ID: <199803120115.RAA25233@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:04:51 PST." <19980311170451.42882@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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> Justin T. Gibbs scribbled this message on Mar 11: > > > * Loading 'just the probe code' isn't possible using a.out > > > (AFAIK) > > > * Depending on device drivers being LKMs lowers reliability (N > > > files that can fail, instead of just having a single kernel) > > > > Then provide a mechanism to have the driver entry point also called when > > linked statically. In a complete LKM solution, you should be able to > > load LKMs from a floppy for recovery or to add vendor supplied, binary > > only, modules during install. > > I was thinking about working on a three stage boot that would support > this... along with this would allow us to dump the current kernel's > main, and replace it with code that handles loading the modules... Please look at the NetBSD bootstrap before leaping into this. 8) > I did come across some more diskspace, so I'm planning on committing > my VFS changes in a week or so... this is the second warning... and > if I don't get any objections, it's the last... Good luck. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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