Re: NetBSD 5.0.1 and kmods
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:44:43 +0100 Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: Hi, I'm having some minor trouble upgrading my I4B software to use the new bsd.kmodule.mk and associated i4b.kmod output. 1) How can I dynamically load such a module at runtime? Unless this recently changed, I think that netbsd-5 modload(8) currently only supports the dynamic loading of LKMs (old-style modules from /usr/lkm/). -- Matt
Re: NetBSD 5.0.1 and kmods
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:11:09 -0500 Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote: Unless this recently changed, I think that netbsd-5 modload(8) currently only supports the dynamic loading of LKMs (old-style modules from /usr/lkm/). I think that I misread though, I'm not sure if the netbsd-5 boot loader can load such modules (it doesn't need to, however, considering netbsd-5 still uses LKMs and that ffs support is monolithically compiled)... -- Matt
Re: NetBSD 5.0.1 and kmods
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Matthew Mondor wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:11:09 -0500 Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote: Unless this recently changed, I think that netbsd-5 modload(8) currently only supports the dynamic loading of LKMs (old-style modules from /usr/lkm/). I think that I misread though, I'm not sure if the netbsd-5 boot loader can load such modules (it doesn't need to, however, considering netbsd-5 still uses LKMs and that ffs support is monolithically compiled)... The bootloader can read such modules - that's how miniroot.kmod is loaded for you to install with. -- Stephen
