Loading modules from /boot/loader.conf

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 10. Jul 2018, at 15:49, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:11:37PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>>> On 10. Jul 2018, at 14:33, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:12:35PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>>>> can you run on your G4:
>>>> 
>>>> readelf -x set_modmetadata_set /boot/kernel/kernel
>>>> 
>>>> This should provide a list of non-NULL pointers. However, on my G4 system
>>>> this section only contains NULL pointers.
>>> 
>>> Mine is also all NULLs.
>> 
>> OK. You said that you can't reproduce the problem.
> 
> I meant that I didn't try yet because the box is used as a database server
> for our pet project at $work, and I didn't want to reboot it.  I'll try to
> find a chance to do this though.
> 
>> So you are able to load a kernel module via /boot/loader.conf?
>> If yes, which one?
> 
> I've put xhci_load="YES" there and report upon the next reboot.
Great!

I tested it with my machine and it shows the problem:
* xhci will not be loaded via /boot/loader.conf
* xhci can be loaded via kldload after the system is up.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> ./danfe