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And they are in the kernel? What are dozens of .sys files in drivers folder then?
by rplnt 15y ago
And they are in the kernel? What are dozens of .sys files in drivers folder then?
- sciurus 15y agoI've got a lot of .ko files in /lib/modules; that doesn't mean they aren't part of the kernel.
- Someone 15y agoThere are at least three different definitions of "in the kernel": - code that compiles to the single executable file that runs the OS (this can be limited to a mechanism for booting the system, a thread scheduler, basic memory allocator, but this may also contain some device drivers, file systems, etc) - any code that compiles to anything that will run in kernel mode (many file systems and device drivers) - the code that someone (say the people distributing what they call "the Linux kernel") call the kernel. This count is about the third. I do not think it contains a kitchen sink, but it is close :-)