KLD technical docs

[stanley jobson]

> > 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...

sure ;-) ... but kinda low level ... so am i right that there is no
higher level doc available ? 

thx
regards,
stan