[MiNT] Kernel modules loader (was: Re: XaAES and appl_init())

[David Gálvez <dgalvez75@gmail.com>]

2013/2/26 Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>:
>
> In the end maybe it's possible to use xaloader for appl_init as suggested by
> you but that's more expensive as I don't know yet how to pass the apid to
> XaAES and would possibly require to exchange xaloader by anyone. Also I have
> plans to get rid of xaloader completely but that's very vague.
>

Helmut, could you explain please what you have in mind regarding the xaloader?

I think we should discuss a mid or long term solution for loading
kernel modules. Something like a universal loader for any km module,
that could take care of dependencies between modules too, and unload
them at runtime.

I suspect ozk had something in mind when the actual km implementation
was done. For sure I read somewhere that the idea was to get rid of
the different modules types (xdd, xfs, xid, etc...) and to have only
one kind (km). I don't know if this is realistic now as a lot of work
should been done yet to accomplish this.