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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
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--On Saturday, October 02, 2004 1:16 AM -0600 Robin Schoonover 
<end@endif.cjb.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:17:18 -0700
> "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> wrote:
>> Is there a pre-existing means in the ports system for installing a
>> kernel module?

> Take a look at how x11/nvidia-driver and net/nvnet do it.
> (@cwd in pkg-plist in particular) Those ports do pretty much exactly the
> same thing you want to do.  (So you can see that there isn't much
> for preexisting functionality).

This sounds like an appropriate avenue.  I'll look into it.

> Don't forget to put your kernel module in /boot/modules, not
> /boot/kernel, otherwise it'll get nuked on kernel install (nvnet does
> this wrong)

I figured that one out already.  (Hey, where'd my module go?)

Later,
Jason C. Wells