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Semesters/Spring 2026 Semester/CS 378 - Multicore Operating Systems/Modular Kernel.md

Author: dhairs

Semesters/Spring 2026 Semester/CS 378 - Multicore Operating Systems/Modular Kernel.md

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+## Painting a Picture
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+Imagine we have a kernel, and have a `my_mod.c` file that defines some module that the kernel can use. This is not meant to be a standalone program, so it doesn't have a `main` entrypoint, but instead something like `mod_init()`.
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+We compile it to a `.o` file. We want this file to be able to integrate into the kernel without necessarily linking into it.
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+This requires some semblance of a dynamic linker/loader.