Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-24 Thread walt
walt wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: The kernel image loads normally. If I type 'load green_saver' :the message is: :'don't know how to load module /boot/kernel/green_saver.ko' It doesn't understand the file format. I think FreeBSD changed the output format for

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I finally got everything compiled (learned quite a bit doing it) but the :resulting loader still says 'don't know how to load...' for FBSD. : :I'll keep looking at the loader code for other possibilities. I notice :that many of the FBSD changes have to do with 'relocatable' kernel images.

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-22 Thread walt
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: The kernel image loads normally. If I type 'load green_saver' :the message is: :'don't know how to load module /boot/kernel/green_saver.ko' It doesn't understand the file format. I think FreeBSD changed the output format for the modules.

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The kernel image loads normally. If I type 'load green_saver' :the message is: :'don't know how to load module /boot/kernel/green_saver.ko' : :I can then proceed to boot the kernel with no modules loaded. It doesn't understand the file format. I think FreeBSD changed the output format

Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-19 Thread walt
I've been using the DFly boot loader to boot FBSD-current because our loader will work correctly with extended/logical partitions -- and FBSD wasn't interested in fixing theirs when I pointed them to our loader patches. Well, recently FBSD made some kind of a change which stops our boot loader

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I've been using the DFly boot loader to boot FBSD-current :because our loader will work correctly with extended/logical :partitions -- and FBSD wasn't interested in fixing theirs :when I pointed them to our loader patches. : :Well, recently FBSD made some kind of a change which stops :our boot

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-19 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: .. :Well, recently FBSD made some kind of a change which stops :our boot loader from loading their kernel modules -- I have :no idea what causes the problem. Anyone here know what the :difference might be? I don't know, you need to experiment a bit. See if you can