Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES

From: Bruce Evans (bde_at_zeta.org.au)
Date: 04/01/04

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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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