bin/93857: Utility for loading the kernel charset translation tables on system boot

[Dmitry Kazarov]

The following reply was made to PR bin/93857; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dmitry Kazarov <kazarov at mcm.ru>
To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, mlaier at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/93857: Utility for loading the kernel charset translation tables on system boot
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:17:19 +0300

 Hi, Gleb!
 
 I have not digged deeply into kiconv functionality - I do not know way it 
 loads data into kernel. I use /usr/lib/libkiconv.so which makes all work for 
 me.  System utils mount_{cd9660,udf,msdosfs,ntfs} works just this way.
 IMHO if kernel interface is going to be changed the libkiconv.so is the best 
 place for changes. 
 
 In other hand I can not find anything about firmwire(9) - no mans, no pages on 
 www.freebsd.org
 
 Sincerely yours
 Dmitry
 
 ÷ ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÉ ÏÔ ðÏÎÅÄÅÌØÎÉË 27 ÆÅ×ÒÁÌÑ 2006 10:39 Gleb Smirnoff ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ(a):
 > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:20:57PM +0000, Dmitry Kazarov wrote:
 > D> >Synopsis:       Utility for loading the kernel charset translation
 > tables on system boot
 >
 > I've heard opinion that current API for loading tables into kernel is
 > hack. Don't remember exactly, who said this. Afaik it can be found in
 > some other PR.
 >
 > Now in FreeBSD we have a special API to load some data blob into kernel -
 > firmwire(9). Is it possible to rewrite charset translation tables
 > loading code to use this API? Is it a good idea?