Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:56:46 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | kernel question |
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I know this can't be done yet, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to write code for. If you compile a driver that can be modularized into the kernel, how hard would it be to have that driver unloaded from a running kernel? (I guess you could say I want to catch part ofthe kernel. It runs pretty quick =)
I've seen solaris have modules loaded that are needed at boot time. For instance, the root file system driver is a module, scsi is a module (the machine I looked at is nothing but scsi), and the elf binary format is a module (I assume it's required to mount file systems as well)
This was something I thought about when I compile 1 kernel for 4 different machines (ranging from a laptop, 486, to 2 pentiums. 3 have scsi cards, 2 boot off IDE drives). I recently went from 2.0.36 to 2.2.0-pre4. I noticed that IDE is module capable now. 2 of my machines have the IDE ports disabled.
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