Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PART1: Proposed init & module changes for 2.5 | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:14:03 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"Rusty Russell wrote:" > > I don't suggest implementing the complete module loading in the boot loader, > > (I'm still not even sure I really like it in the kernel. ; > ) [...] > > only loading the modules themselves into memory for the kernel access during > > it's exec. (Like an initrd image is loaded) If a boot loader wants to > > understand and use modules.dep or do on the fly dependency checking, or have > > kernel userland utils to update it's conifg intelligently, that's it's > > business. I only want to see a way modules can be preloaded before kernel > > exec. > > Why not just put them in the initrd image? The kernel is not going to > use the entire module as it is, so it will have to copy it anyway...
Somebody wants to modularize all binary formats, including binfmt_elf ... ?
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