From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 18:31:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA20162 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA20144 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA13686 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:55:30 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA07707 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:55:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980104175505.007cc9b0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jcwells@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 17:55:05 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jason Wells Subject: LKM versus Static Kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was considering adding Linux compatibility to my system. After looking thru the handbook, I noticed that this can be done as a loadable kernel module. I looked in the lkm directory and noticed the linux object file. Why is using an lkm better than using a statically compiled kernel? Vice versa? What are the issues at stake? Thanks, Jason Wells