Subject: Re: Proposal: In-kernel loader + symbol table handler.
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/20/2000 22:13:53
That is done contiguously. Hey, FreeBSD has done a giant work in this 
area so it's a very good place to look how different problems has been
solved (for good and bad).

> 
> Dare I say that someone might want to look at the substantial work done in
> FreeBSD on this level?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:45:44PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Cool. Make sure that you talk to uch@netbsd.org (and another Japanese
> > guy who's name I can't remember at the moment) about this. They have
> > done the first steps to an in-kernel linker, using the existing autoconfig
> > structure as well. It would be a shame if effort was wasted.
> > 
> > There should be a posting about this in the tech-kern archives.
> > 
> > But it's good to see some movement on this, it is one of the areas
> > where we're in dire need of improvement.
> > 
> > - Frank
> > 
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