Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:34:15 -0500 From: James da Silva <jds@torrentnet.com> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System Message-ID: <199703311834.NAA04015@bacardi.torrentnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199703311712.KAA09639@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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In article <199703311712.KAA09639@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry writes: >> >This is a hack brought on because the loader is not in kernel space. >> >This was a policy decision by the FreeBSD core team. >> >> It was? I've always advocated for the linker to be in the kernel and >> I don't recall any other core member disagreeing. The reality from my >> point of view is that this is simply the way we got the code from you. > >Garrett disagreed; this is not to say that he didn't have good reasons, >but I believe the benefits outweigh the additional size and other >issues which he raises. People should bear in mind in this discussion that the code to do the relocations on a loaded a.out file is well under 8K. FYI. Seems well worth it to me. Jaime ........................................................................... : James da Silva <jds@torrentnet.com> : Stand on my shoulders, : : Torrent Networking Technologies Corp. : not on my toes. :
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