KLD technical docs

[John-Mark Gurney]

Stanley Jobson wrote this message on Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:34 +0200:
> for my master thesis i am looking for technical docs about
> dynamic linking esp. about the kernel dynamic linker facility.
> 
> i found some good docs about dynamic linking in general but
> nothing about KLD/LKM.
> 
> are there any technical docs on KLD? I read the short chapter
> in the arch handbook but thats not much info.
> 
> i am interested in docs answering the following questions:
> - how does the dynamic loading and linking work for KLDs/LKMs?
> - does this anything has to do with libbfd, libdl or rtld?
> - how are dependencies handled?
> 
> technical info to LKM and dynamic linking facility of the other
> BSDs would be also interesting :)

The best technical doc is src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c...  :)  That
handles all the magic of SYSINIT's, sysctl's and the other magic of
kernel modules...

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