RE: [coLinux-devel] Modules?

[peter g. <plu...@p1...>]

atm i see colinux as a work in progress :) ie not really for newbies

provided smbfs (or better hostfs when/if it appears) are compiled in it is
not too hard for a techie to install the modules file.

btw the format of the modules tarballs i have seen was horrible there is
nowhere in the filesystem where you can simply extract it and have it work
you always have to extract and move



-----Original Message-----
From: col...@li...
[mailto:col...@li...]On Behalf Of Jaroslaw
Kowalski
Sent: 17 April 2004 21:58
To: col...@li...
Subject: [coLinux-devel] Modules?


Hi guys!

Recently a patch has been introduced that makes additional kernel features
available as modules.

This is good because we have new functionality available in coLinux, some
very useful (a firewall), but at the same time it introduced a dependency
between the root images and the running kernel.

You're no longer able to use just any root image - you have to use the one
that has the appropriate modules. I was wondering what can be done to
improve this.

Here are some ideas:

1. Compile everything statically.

2. Provide a way to automatically install "vmlinux-modules.tar.gz" under
"/lib/modules/kernel-version". This would require some smart script on the
linux side, but I think it's doable. The only problem I see is passing the
vmlinux-modules.tar.gz down to the linux guest. I think we'd need something
like /dev/cocd (character device as opposed to /dev/cobd).

3. Provide a mini-partition that would contain the modules instead of the
tar.gz. This can could be mounted in fstab under "/lib/modules".

Out of the above ideas, I find "1" to be the easiest to implement and most
trouble-free. What do you think? Is there anything that MUST be installed as
a module and cannot be compiled-in?

What do you think?

Jarek



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