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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2013 20:14:26 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kldload on arm
Message-ID:  <B09E8511-6B8C-4E7C-B4D0-2F1B571EDA58@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAB3ij4BZDyyEkSdonCFxiETrMRXXNge7KxDqUk=M79XcD1g9LQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAB3ij4BZDyyEkSdonCFxiETrMRXXNge7KxDqUk=M79XcD1g9LQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Aug 11, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Tom Everett wrote:

> Good afternoon mailing list.  I'm attempting to write my first driver.
> I've got a very basic driver which I am attempting to load.  The source
> code is here:
> 
> https://github.com/teverett/pi-iic
> 
> When I attempt to load the driver I get this:
> 
> root@lureen:/home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic # make install
> install -o root -g wheel -m 555   bcm2835_iic.ko /boot/kernel
> kldxref /boot/kernel
> kldxref: Skipping /boot/kernel/kernel.gz.tramp: not dynamically-linked
> root@lureen:/home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic # make load
> /sbin/kldload -v /home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic/bcm2835_iic.ko
> kldload: can't load /home/tom/pi-iic/pi-iic/bcm2835_iic.ko: File exists
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> Does kldload work properly on arm?

Yes, it does.

"File exists" simply means that the kernel thinks
the driver is already loaded.

Tim




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