From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 10 00:32:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09323 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09318 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:32:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00459; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:31:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802100831.AAA00459@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:06:49 GMT." <199802100806.BAA20965@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:31:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. > > > > How much smaller is the ELF loader? > > Not that much smaller. But it's having both that's the problem. Understood. > > > Or you could write an ELF program which, when loaded from the boot > > > blocks that understood ELF, would load a.out kernels. > > > > Please do. 8) > > I'll think about it; it's pretty trivial, I'm betting, except where > the "extras" are concerned (they made some things vastly more complex, > unfortunately). Which things do they complexify, and how? I'm not really attached to the way that the current "extras" stuff works; if there is a more ELF-friendly way to do it, then I'm all ears. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message