Loading kld's from other archs/versions

Joseph Koshy joseph.koshy at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 15:36:23 GMT 2005


> By any chance, can I somehow use kernel modules compiled for 5.4/i386,
> 5.4/amd64 or 6.0/i386 on 6.0/amd64? I don't have the source code, but
> I need it to work very much.

You cannot use a kernel module compiled for one architecture with a
kernel running on another.

Even on a given architecture, binary kernel modules are very likely to be
incompatible between major releases.

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