Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:34:46 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za Subject: Re: pseudo device lkm's broken Message-ID: <3884.809811286@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:41:01 PDT." <199509010141.SAA23903@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> I think the Linux LKM system has shown enough of a win for putting them > in kernel space that I'd like to at least try it. If it's not a win, > it's not a win, and you go with the external object massager. Linux > can run a lot of things as loadable modules and still not exceed the > memory restriction for a kernel on a 4M machine. > Now, why couldn't the kernel stick the symbols in a file on the rootfs and free the memory ? they're not used that much... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?
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