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On Wed Jan 16, 2002 at 11:56:59AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <20020116194121.GC32184@codepoet.org> > By author: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Keep in mind that insmod current needs to incorporate a full ELF > > interpreter in userspace (and the source code needs to know about > > all the types of relocations and jump for each arch and for 32 > > and 64 bit ELF. Horrible stuff really. If we could cleanup the > > kernel's insmod implementation to require merely a syscall > > passing a filename to the kernel, it would sure make the > > initramfs smaller and simpler. I believe Rusty made a patch to > > do this sort of thing.... > > > > Yeah! Let's put all this crap in KERNEL SPACE! *NOT!* Good point. We surely wouldn't want to have an ELF interpreter in kernel space. That would be evil! rm linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c There, thats better, now userspace can load everything. If we can figure out how to get userspace loaded.... The kernel already knows how to load ELF files, and _has_ to do that job to get userspace running anyways. So why not use that mechanism for modules? -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- - 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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