Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:29:17 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Elf Kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811030927260.27548-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199811030521.NAA21942@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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So should we take the VFS loading out of libc and add it to mount? Or should there be a wrapper function in libc, getkldbyname (char *name) and return "/modules/name.ko"? Brian Feldman On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Peter Wemm wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > Ahhhh, that's where it is! I have no good idea on how to allow, with this > > code, lkm's and kld's to coexist.... so is it time to completely phase out > > lkm's yet? > > I think the best way is to have mount(2) initiate a kldload if needed. We > will need this functionality sooner or later. If mount(2) does it, we can > garbage collect unused, unmounted filesystems after a while and unload > them. > > > Brian Feldman > > > > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, John Hay wrote: > > > > > > Be sure to let me know when ELF kernels can autoload kld modules like the > > > > current a.out kernel does with lkm's. > > > > > > It's not the kernel that loads them. Go and look in lib/libc/gen/getvfsent. > c > > > > > > John > > > -- > > > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting > "No coffee, No workee!" :-) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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