drvld Command drvld
Load a loadable driver into memory
/etc/drvld -r driver
drvld loads a loadable driver into memory. driver names a load-
able driver. Only the superuser root can run drvld.
A loadable driver is one that is not linked into the kernel when
it was built. The current suite of loadable drivers include mul-
ti-port serial cards, various SCSI host adaptors, and a variety
of add-on cards. The COHERENT drivers for shared memory,
semaphores, and message passing are also implemented as loadable
drivers, due to the efficient size of the COHERENT kernel.
The -r option to drvld specifies that any temporary files it
creates in directory /tmp should be removed.
Note that drvld expects to find its entry in directory /drv, not
in /dev.
***** Files *****
/drv -- directory containing loadable drivers
***** See Also *****
commands, device drivers, sload()
***** Notes *****
COHERENT supports user-written, loadable device drivers generated
with the COHERENT device-driver kit.
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