In article <67a22f44bed1715672baa92e866f1538@zyx.in>,
Cherry G. Mathew  <cherry@zyx.in> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if someone could put down briefly and to the point, 
>what the NetBSD "elf" related shortcomings are.
>
>Here's my shallow understanding of the situation.
>
>- libsa has no standalone support for kernel modules, does not 
>understand all elf header types.
>- There are shortcomings related to kernel module linking, which uses 
>userspace ld ( for what ? How ? )
>
>It would be could to have a concise elf related feature "wishlist" for 
>NetBSD. It would probably make a well deserved
>"projects" entry at http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html

We really need to have an ELF linker inside the kernel, instead of pre-linking
the object file in userland. The current model makes symbol resolution in
lkms that depend on each other annoying.

christos