Date: 29 Dec 1998 16:52:33 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LKM future (was Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers ) Message-ID: <xzpww3bhrni.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:16:24 %2B0800" References: <199812281816.CAA67058@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes: > a.out vs ELF speed wise are the same.. The executable code is the same, > the only difference is the wrapping. Now, it may be faster to load a LKM > than a KLD (I'd be a little suprised if this was the case) but it wouldn't > really matter since it's a one-off event. It's slower - it's more or less a function of kernel size and memory size, since you need to link the LKM against the kernel. I once ran an unstripped debugging kernel on a 16 MB machine by mistake. Loading an LKM took half a minute... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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