On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Brad Salai wrote:

> But the lkm will run with -current sources as of just a few days ago! It is
> tres cool to be able to run color with a -current kernel.

Yup - you just can't compile a new one without making the changes Taras
mentioned.

> If you can, I'd suggest modifying lkm.conf in the source tree to make it
> clearer how to install things. The present one isn't very helpful, at least
> to the clueless. Maybe slight changes to the lkm.conf man page would be the
> place for this. An example might do it.

Yeah - I had to read through /etc/rc.lkm to figure it all aout!

> I notices that there are some other modules in /usr/lkm/  Are these known
> to work? Are they of any value?

Well, compat_sunos won't work, and unionfs definitely won't work as is.
compat_sunos only works if the kernel is compiled with all of the
compat_xx stuff defined (at least, _09, _10, and _43).  And unionfs won't
work as is because it requires certain code to be resident in the kernel
which only exists if the entirety of unionfs is kernel resident!  (I've
provided patches for unionfs, but they haven't been integrated yet.)

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