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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:10:20 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Which release is elf based?
Message-ID:  <19990126161019.O66239@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901260512.AAA03629@rochester.rr.com>; from Marty Leisner on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:12:09AM -0500
References:  <199901260512.AAA03629@rochester.rr.com>

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On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at  0:12:09 -0500, Marty Leisner wrote:
>
> A few weeks ago, I looked at the freebsd pages and didn't find
> anything useful about elf...
>
> Is 3.0-RELEASE elf based?

That depends on your terminology.  Let's say:

2.2 supports ELF
3.0 has ELF by default, but an a.out kernel.
4.0 (and 3.1) have everything ELF, and require the new bootstrap in
    order to load the kernel.

Everything should be backwards compatible: 4.0 can still run a.out,
and the new bootstrap should still load old kernels.

Greg
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