site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com -pmb _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... At 1:42 AM +0200 6/24/06, Mike Fischer wrote: Do you have any reference where this is documented? I'm not suggesting it's not a good idea but until now the only way I saw to get a kext loaded at boot time seemed to be to install it in /System/Library/Extensions. It never occured to me that a StartupItem might be used to load a kext. There are two basic types of kexts. IOKit kexts use IOKit to bind and match against the hardware found on the machine. They are loaded automatically based on their matching instructions. All other kexts have to be loaded by something. That's usually either your app or a startup process of some sort. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com