Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:19:50 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Suggestion for handling of boot-time driver options |
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> That fits nicely with an idea i had some time ago and that i discussed > with Eric Youngdale and Mike Neuffer at this years Linux-Kongress: > > What if we could compile drivers as monolithic and modular at the same > time? I thought that it should be possible to put the startup code into > different ELF segments - eg .start0 and .start1 - and then have the linker > strip of the unwanted part.
> What killed the whole idea were the startup code in init/main.c and my > poor understanding of the whole ELF magic. > > Is this an idea that warrants further investigation or am i really the > lunatic many people believe me to be? <g>
This would be really great if we complemented it with a /boot/vmlinuz.x.y.z.so for dynamic loading of drivers that weren't loaded in at boot-time...
And no, it's not that lunatic :-)
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