Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:46:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <199811110546.VAA00601@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:13:11 %2B0800." <199811110513.NAA08424@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> 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
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