kld support

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:39:50PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> So, I thought..  since I can do something about the in-kernel linker, 
> perhaps I can add PIC mode support?  The problem with that though is 
> that gcc says "-fPIC mode not implemented in kernel mode" and errors 
> out.

After looking at the gcc source code, it appears to me that the
conflict is created by using -mcmodel as well as -fpic, right?

If so, is there any harm in building the modules in the small model
(for whatever that implies)? I think they'll still be 64-bit, right?

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