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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) 
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 12:33:32 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> I don't think we do at all.  It wouldn't be *that* hard to do with our
> current a.out format, and I think the first big thing we need to do is
> implement a `lighter weight' LKM mechanism that doesn't rely on
> /usr/bin/ld to load things into the kernel, otherwise you run into a
> chicken-and-egg problem loading disk drivers dynamically.

exactly.  This is a highpriority for me.

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