I thought I'd note that the LKM framework isn't working for
all platforms right now.

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Stefan Grefen wrote:

> In message <199808211350.PAA08091@horn.ics.muni.cz>  Zdenek Salvet wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > I have just loaded soundard driver this way, I don't think we are missing much.
> > 
> 
> Mostly we're missing linking between loaded modules. If you've drivers which 
> are depend on each other you can't do it. The second thing we're missing is
> demand loading of devices. E.g. it loads itself when needed.
> It's not too hard to add it to the lkm framework, only userlevel linking has to
> go and be replaced by a kernel version of ld.so (the kernel can keep the
> symbols for debugers already). Ideally you would create /dev/ksym or 
> /kern/symbols, so that you can debug after crash with loaded modules or
> with gdb target kcore ....
> There are only a few commercial unixes left (HPUX is the most prominent) which
> don't do it. 
> 
> Stefan
> 
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> > Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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> Stefan Grefen                                Tandem Computers Europe Inc.
> grefen@hprc.tandem.com                       High Performance Research Center
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