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On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:22:55PM +0530, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> On 8/28/05, Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:
> [...]
>=20
> > Remember that the NetBSD kernel doesn't include a linker, so modload(8)
> > spawns ld(1) which does the actual linking and then modload(8) copies
> > the resulting binary to the kernel.
>=20
> Hmm... which means that linking in kernel modules at boot-time, the
> way FreeBSD does, is a still far away ?
>=20
> What would a TODO list for this look like ?

Very short:

 - specify and write a modern loadable modules framework
 - bury lkm(4)

A first step would be to have an in-kernel linker, of course.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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