:Sorry about the crosspost but I estimate that this reaches those who need
:to see this..
:
:There was a change in the 4.x kernel.h on June 15 that broke backwards
:compatibility for binary distributed driver files
:(distributed as .o files)  It was an MFC of a patch by peter..
:but we didn't understand the ramifications in 4.x.

    This seems very reasonable to me... a nice quick and easy solution.

                                        -Matt


:my fix (a reversion in part) is as follows:
:
:Index: kernel.h
:===================================================================
:RCS file: /repos/cvs/mod/freebsd/src/sys/sys/kernel.h,v
:retrieving revision 1.63.2.5
:diff -u -r1.63.2.5 kernel.h
:--- kernel.h   2001/07/26 23:27:53     1.63.2.5
:+++ kernel.h   2001/10/11 21:30:03
:@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@
:       SI_SUB_VM               = 0x1000000,    /* virtual memory system
:init*/
:       SI_SUB_KMEM             = 0x1800000,    /* kernel memory*/
:       SI_SUB_KVM_RSRC         = 0x1A00000,    /* kvm operational
:limits*/
:-      SI_SUB_CPU              = 0x2000000,    /* CPU resource(s)*/
:-      SI_SUB_KLD              = 0x2100000,    /* KLD and module setup */
:...
:
:The result of this was that old .o  drivers are initialise at sequence 
:0x2400000 but the device framework is not initialised until 0x3100000.
:
:my patch shifts all the numbers back to below that that binary
:...
:Julian

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