From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 11 17:18:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25259 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25236 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:18:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25233; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:15:09 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803120115.RAA25233@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John-Mark Gurney cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Eivind Eklund , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: userconfig data -> linker set -> ELF segment In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:04:51 PST." <19980311170451.42882@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:15:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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