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Salut,

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:29:17AM +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> The FreeBSD sysinit mechanism let the ELF (binutils) linker build a
> large table of all sysinits, sorts them in the kernel and processes them
> in a well-defined order. It is also used for other things, like the
> newbus framework to hook in the driver modules.
>=20
> The only question for NetBSD adoption is, whether any architecture still
> has a non-ELF kernel. I don't mean the format of the final image, but
> whether the linkage is ELF. Depending on that, the work can be just used
> or needs some work in ld for the specific format.

I remember some A.OUT section hacks, but I'm not sure if a solution for
COFF exists.

				Tonnerre

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