Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES
From: Bruce Evans (bde_at_zeta.org.au)
Date: 04/01/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:15:17 +1000 (EST) To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote this message on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:29 -0800:
> > As a side note (but related), I've just finished the first part of a
> > refurbished module loader. I had to do this for amd64, but it has
> > benefits elsewhere. The main change is switching from 'cc -shared'
> > format .ko files to 'ld -r' (relocatable) .ko files. The big
> > consequence of this is that it becomes trivial to build a kernel out
> > of .ko files. (Or at least embed .ko files into the kernel).
>
> Yah! You go Peter! That's what I've beeing envisioning of the kld
> system shortly after it was integrated...
>
> This will also make kernel compiles easier since we can then just build
> all the modules ONCE, and build our static kernel from that.. no longer
> do we need to compile almost everything twice..
We never needed to compile almost everything twice. I used NO_MODULES=yes
in /etc/make.conf to build the correct number of modules (0).
Bruce
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