Configuring a Nonloadable Driver

When the driver is not loadable, it is linked as part of the IRIX kernel. The following steps are needed to make the driver usable:

Place the driver executable file in /var/sysgen/boot.
Place a descriptive file in /var/sysgen/master.d.
Place a directive file in /var/sysgen/system (or simply add a line to /var/sysgen/system/irix.sm).
Run autoconfig to generate a new kernel.
Reboot the system.

Some of these steps are elaborated in the following topics.