Re: Path to kmods

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:16:50PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:

> > I sort of dual-boot NetBSD/amd64 and NetBSD/Xen (Dom0) with the same
> > userland. Sometimes it happens, that the kernels have a different
> > uname -r.
> 
> Why do the kernel modules need to be different?  That doesn't appear
> necessary to me, but maybe I'm missing something.

It would be unfortunate if there were ABI differences between amd64 and
amd64/xen kernels that would affect bland kernel modules. I would classify
that as a bug.

Andrew