From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 07:13:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24398 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles229.castles.com [208.214.165.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24387 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00601; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:46:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811110546.VAA00601@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Wemm cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:13:11 +0800." <199811110513.NAA08424@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:46:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'm just wondering when we're going to switch the kernel to ELF and > > > put /usr/src/sys/modules into the build path. I'd really like the > > > /usr/bin/linux command to start doing the right thing on current 3.0 > > > SNAPshots, among other things. :-) > > > > I think we're about ready to do it. We probably want to insist that > > people cut over to the new bootstrap first, perhaps with a HEADS UP > > announcement from someone that hasn't cried wolf before. > > Oh, one other thing.. libdisk is built by doing a file2c of /usr/mdec/ > boot1/boot2 and compiling it in. It is using the *old* boot code, because > libdisk is built before src/sys/boot in a 'make world'. Looks like it needs to be fixed then. > BTW; I really do not like moving the bootblock source files (boot0/1/2) to > /boot; I think of /boot as an equivalent to the bootblocks.. /usr/mdec > should be where they remain stored, and it's where disklabel expects them > too. That's just an "in progress" thing. /usr/mdec's days are numbered; the only serious contender would be /usr/libdata/boot, and that's just as bad as anything else on /usr. -- \\ 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message