Am 23.09.14 um 21:52 schrieb Matt Thomas: > > On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Christoph Egger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 23.09.14 um 17:26 schrieb Matt Thomas: >>> >>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Taylor R Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:41:25 +0200 >>>> From: Martin Husemann <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote: >>>>> If it's GPL, we can make kernel modules. >>>> >>>> That is not very practical for display drivers on platforms like Manuel >>>> is working on. >>>> >>>> Why not? Can't the boot loader load modules? >>> >>> No, arm is typically only monolithic kernels. There is no NetBSD >>> bootloader, >>> just u-boot or similar. >>> >> >> AFAIK arm has a device tree in the firmware you use to load modules. > > That device tree, if present, is presented only to linux kernels.
Not quite true, FreeBSD has support for it. Christoph > And it will not help you load modules since u-boot will not assist with that. >
