Subject: Re: netbsd/arla
To: Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu>
From: Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/15/1999 04:40:56
Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu> writes:

> > The problem is that LKMs are not supported on NetBSD/alpha. Arla would run
> > on it if we could.
> 
> sorry to bug you guys more, but I'm not verse in kernel code or anything,
> what is a LKM, and why isn't it supported?

LKM - Loadable Kernel Module.
The problem is that the loader for the kernel modules on NetBSD doesn't support
the binary format that NetBSD/alpha uses.

//art