CFD: XMLification of NOTES

[John-Mark Gurney]

Peter Wemm wrote this message on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:29 -0800:
> As a side note (but related), I've just finished the first part of a 
> refurbished module loader.  I had to do this for amd64, but it has 
> benefits elsewhere.  The main change is switching from 'cc -shared' 
> format .ko files to 'ld -r' (relocatable) .ko files.  The big 
> consequence of this is that it becomes trivial to build a kernel out 
> of .ko files.  (Or at least embed .ko files into the kernel). 

Yah!  You go Peter!  That's what I've beeing envisioning of the kld
system shortly after it was integrated...

This will also make kernel compiles easier since we can then just build
all the modules ONCE, and build our static kernel from that.. no longer
do we need to compile almost everything twice..

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