Subject: Re: lkm support ?
To: Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 05/07/1997 10:20:27
On Wed, 7 May 1997 16:11:08 +0200 (MET DST)
Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Are there lkm's ready to be used in the hp300 port?
> Can the main kernel size be reduced with lkm usage?
...what LKMs do you want to use? The file system LKMs work. Device
driver LKMs are much harder ... the LKM system needs to be completely
redone in order to support loadable drivers for "real" devices. (Pesudo-
devices can be done, since they do not have attachments or locators.)
Loadable emulations currently do not work; some changes need to be made
to how emulations work in order to support LKM'ing them.
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