Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 20:14:01 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_linker.c kern_module.c src/sys/sys module.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905082012530.18703-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199905081827.LAA01036@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 8 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > The interesting thing is that the dependency information can be defined in > > pretty much the same way that DECLARE_MODULE() works. We don't need to > > worry about data structures for linking dependencies to modules etc, > > because all the information goes with the .o files. If they are linked > > into a monolithic kernel, it's all merged into one set. If the same binary > > is made into a kld, then the data is useable by the loader etc and is easy > > to get to. The dependency info can probably specify filename hints too if > > required. > > This is prettymuch the "module metadata" stuff that I was talking about > way back. If you get the infrastructure into place (particularly > separating the file/module blob) I have lots of changes to the loader > that will benefit from this (they should still work). Excellent. I'm glad Peter is starting on this. I would like to try and get some time at Usenix to talk this through in realtime. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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