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From: robert@slip.cc.uq.oz.au (Robert Brockway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Linux user's comments (since 0.98! :-) on FreeBSD 2.1
Date: 16 Jan 1996 07:32:53 GMT
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Thomas Graichen (graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: : - Loadable modules don't appear to work out of the box. Compiling the
: : kernel without MSDOS support, and then saying mount_msdos gives
: : '(vfs)cannot find msdos_module'. Sounds about as broken as Linux at
: : the moment ;-)
Linux's module support isn't broken at all. It is the way all device drivers
work these days. Kerneld is up and running providing dynamically loadable
module support. i.e. a module is loaded when required seemlessly by
kerneld, a small deamon running in user space.
Very nice idea, now an offical part of Linux.
-Robert
--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
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