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Cheers. I'll see what I can dig out of the fossil record about autoconfig ;-)

• Taniwha 8y ago
  autoconfig is essentially a front end like the linux module loading tools, it makes some fake COFF files containing the kernel symbol table and some glue code and links them against the driver(s) you want to load, then it loads the code into kernel space, patches the block/char major tables and calls a driver's init routine Sadly it's not as functional as we would like, I actually wrote it for UniSoft as a way we could sell drivers without building kernels every time, someone at Apple saw it and not only demanded we include it in A/UX but also demanded that they own it .... so I wrote another one for Apple, it worked differently and was barely functional - Apple could have had the original better one for free if they'd dropped the demand that they owned it