1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Doug Rabson 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/kldload/kldload.8,v 1.7.2.10 2002/12/07 08:44:02 jmallett Exp $ 27.\" 28.Dd October 27, 2017 29.Dt KLDLOAD 8 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm kldload 33.Nd load a file into the kernel 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Op Fl nv 37.Ar 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41utility loads 42.Ar file Ns Pa .ko 43into the kernel using the kernel linker. 44Note that if multiple modules are specified then an attempt will 45be made to load them all, even if some fail. 46List of search directories is provided by 47.Va kern.module_path 48variable. 49.Pp 50The following options are available: 51.Bl -tag -width indent 52.It Fl n 53Do not try to load module if already loaded. 54.It Fl v 55Be more verbose. 56.El 57.Sh FILES 58.Bl -tag -width /boot/modules.local -compact 59.It Pa /boot/kernel 60directory containing loadable modules. 61Modules must have an extension of 62.Pa .ko . 63.It Pa /boot/modules.local 64directory for local loadable kernel modules 65and wrapped external firmware images; see 66.Xr firmware 9 67.El 68.Sh EXIT STATUS 69.Ex -std 70.Sh AUTOMATICALLY LOADING MODULES 71Some modules (ipfw, etc.) may be automatically loaded at boot 72time by having their operation enabled in 73.Xr rc.conf 5 . 74Modules may also be auto-loaded through their addition to 75.Xr loader.conf 5 . 76.Sh SEE ALSO 77.Xr kldload 2 , 78.Xr loader.conf 5 , 79.Xr rc.conf 5 , 80.Xr kldstat 8 , 81.Xr kldunload 8 82.Sh HISTORY 83The 84.Nm 85utility first appeared in 86.Fx 3.0 , 87replacing the 88.Xr lkm 4 89interface. 90.Sh AUTHORS 91.An Doug Rabson Aq Mt dfr@FreeBSD.org 92