Subject: Re: Proposal: In-kernel loader + symbol table handler.
To: Jason R Thorpe , Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/20/2000 19:26:46
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:07:26AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:19:40AM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
>  > > Will we still have the option of statically configuring/loading
>  > > a kernel?
>  > > 
>  > For sure YES!
> 
> Ragge -- I like your proposal ... but is it necessary for the kernel
> linker to always run as a kernel process?  Can't it just use the
> context of whatever is cauing the module to be loaded, e.g. the modload
> program or whatever?

Running it as a single thread surely will eliminate locking problems when
altering the symbol table, wouldn't it?

Regards,
	-is