Re: Simplified Steps for Building a Loadable module on -CURRENT

Am 31.08.2006 um 00:12 schrieb David Christensen:

I've been able to successfully build drivers in the past as
loadable modules but I'm getting some kernel panics with -CURRENT
when installing a module using kldload now where things used to
work before.

You did nuke /usr/obj, performed a full kernel build (cd /usr/src; make buildkernel installkernel), and the module in question that was installed alongside your new kernel is *not* panicking the system?

Then what's the panic message, and how exactly are you building your module?

Assume I'm a complete FreeBSD noob for a moment
(which really isn't that far from the truth) and I want to build
a driver as a loadable module for testing. After moving to
the appropriate directory in the source tree (/usr/src/sys/dev/XXX),
what steps do I need to follow to build the driver as a module?

That would be /usr/src/sys/modules/<modulename>

So far, just running make there has worked for me just fine.

Assume for the moment that I have already commented the driver out
of my kernel configuration file
(/usr/src/sys/<architecture>/conf/GENERIC)
and rebuilt and installed that kernel.

If the driver has been compiled into the kernel, kldload will error out with EEXISTS. If the system panics, you should provide specifics.


Stefan
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