Subject: loadable kernel modules (was Re: Where to put firmware?)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.aug.zwei@onlinehome.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/23/2002 16:02:45
Martin Husemann wrote:

> But do I want all kernels that have an active ISDN card (thus need downloaded
> firmware) to have LKM support? No, *I* don't. Those cards are pretty common

I am only lurking here, but this sentence triggers a question I had
wondered about previously.

Are there technical or philosophical reasons, apart from lack of
developer power, why NetBSD does not support loadable kernel modules as
strong as FreeBSD and Linux do?

References to web pages or previous threads on this list will do nicely.

ciao
     Klaus