Thomas De Schampheleire writes:
> > Right.  So, you have your service method just touch the driver to have
> > it loaded.
> 
> 
> Does this mean that the _init functions *will* be called?

Those are always called as the module is brought into memory.  They're
part of the kernel module-loading framework.  See the modinstall()
function.

> You can set up a service that invokes the modload utility to force the
> > module to load, but I think you're actually looking for the
> > (undocumented) /platform/*/kernel/cpu/ directory.
> 
> 
> Could you give some more information about what this directory is for and
> how it could be of use to me?

Not easily.  :-/

But see cmi_load_module(), where we load up per-vendor CPU modules,
and the existing files under /platform/i86pc/kernel/cpu/.

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