reload kernel without reboot?

[Jason Unovitch]

On Jun 14, 2015 12:30 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:24:59 +0430, takCoder wrote:
> > my question is: Is there a way to reload freebsd kernel in which i don't
> > need to restart to apply the changes?
>
> Probably not, because the kernel is the first thing the
> OS boot mechanism will load, and this is required at the
> earliest stage of OS booting for the kernel to work as
> intended. What you would need is to change the kernel
> binary content (after source change and compile run)
> both on disk and in memory, with all its location references
> and dependency resolutions so the result parts will work
> consistently again. I'd say that's a very hard task, nearly
> impossible.
>
> However, if you are able to move the things you want to
> "dynamically load and unload" into kernel modules - there
> might be a solution for you. Kernel modules can be dealt
> with easily using kldload and kldunload. However, the
> kernel itself cannot be unloaded and reloaded with those
> tools.
>
>
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> Polytropon
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That is worth a read. I'm sure if it were easy it would have been
implemented by now.

Jason