Re: Lua in the NetBSD kernel

[STPeters <stefan@...>]

On 8/16/2011 7:24 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> > >
> > >  I was unable to do this in Linux. Is that surprising? I'm more
> > >  familiar with OpenBSD than NetBSD. Do you think this would work with
> > >  OpenBSD?
> It is no surprise that this does not work on Linux.  It is not made for
> Linux, but for NetBSD.  I will not work on OpenBSD, since they do not
> have the modules like NetBSD does.  So even if you take the source code,
> you won't get it running on OpenBSD.

IIRC the kernel module system in OpenBSD is almost the same as NetBSD:

http://www.thc.org/root/docs/loadable_kernel_modules/openbsd-lkm.html

Perhaps you are referring to the fact that OpenBSD does not permit the 
loading of modules without rebooting:

http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/tech/9807/msg00030.html

Kernel modules *should* be port-able between all the BSD's, 
notwithstanding certain kernel differences. There is a growing support 
for Lua in the FreeBSD community, and I would be willing to help with a 
"FreeBSD port":

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/