On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 15:46:44 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do have a Unix machine which has an experimental capability to > unload drivers, but it was experimental. Nowadays, the efforts are to > have things loaded in user space, and unloadable if you no longer need > what they do.
Linux has been able to unload drivers (rmmod or modprobe -r) as far as I can remember (the 2.0.x days at least). Linux drivers are most definitely not in userspace unless it's a FUSE filesystem driver. There is even a system service that automatically unloads kernel modules that are unused after a while. FreeBSD also has a kldunload command. The drivers are not in userspace either. In DOS it's up to the driver to provide the unloading functionality. Ethernet packet drivers typically can. I know Realtek and 3com drivers can because I made myself a batch script to turn the network on and off in which I unload the packet drivers to free some RAM. I think mTCP drivers can be unloaded as well. --- WWW: https://metalpunks.info GPG: C90CAB7122AC1231
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