Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!mintaka!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: how to build a kernel extension
Message-ID: <4648@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 22:12:55 GMT
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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I have the manual named "Kernel Extensions and Device Support Programming
Concepts", but while it goes into some issues in excruciating detail,
I can't really find ANYWHERE where it addresses the simple step-by-step
set of instructions you must follow to create a loadable kernel extension
file once you compile your extension foo.c and get a foo.o file.

I get the impression that you need to specify to "ld" an export file and
import file for symbols, but more than that, who knows?  I did what
I thought was reasonable, and got an image with no undefined symbols,
but the output from the linker causes the sysconfig SYS_KLOAD system
call to return "Exec format error".

Has this procedure been summarized somewhere in the documentation
and I just am not finding it?

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu