From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 30 13:07:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14366 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14309 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 13:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA07097 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02543; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:04:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704301904.MAA02543@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) To: ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net (Chris Csanady) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:04:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704301635.LAA23173@nyx.pr.mcs.net> from "Chris Csanady" at Apr 30, 97 11:35:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >The important point is that there is *no difference* between the dynamic > >and statically loaded version of a driver. I can go into a > >/sys/compile/FOO directory and construct loadable modules from the same > >object files. > > How about a statically loaded version of the kernel? I mean, will it now > be nothing more than an aggregate of some modules? It would be nice if > all there were were modules, and to make yourself a kernel, you just > had to stick them together.. ELF section archiver! ELF section archiver! Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.