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Followup to: <15429.48638.96256.842851@irving.iisd.sra.com> By author: David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Agreed. However, this work could easily be performed by an insmod > variant that takes a module, a "System.map", and a kernel image, and > produces a cpio file as output instead of passing the data to the > kernel for immediate processing. The kernel mechanism would then only > need to unpack the pieces, relocate, and make the system calls. > How do you know where the running kernel will be allocating address space for the module? -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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