From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 15 12:48:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18575 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:48:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@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 MAA18567 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00947; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810150208.TAA00947@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Karl Pielorz , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: R-Day, 15th October, 1998 (BST or similar ;-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:47:17 CDT." <3.0.3.32.19981014204717.0107000c@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:08:29 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > One wonders if Jordan has been busy on working on the bootloader issue... > Have yet to hear more than "we should" or "we shouldn't" and kernel ELF vs > aout (ad naseum - which certainly isn't going to happen) are getting rather > stale. Actually, Jordan's load is currently split between testing (where most of my effort right now is) and trying to have something ready for the Alpha at about the same time. > Was anything definitive decided? Or is it going to wait for the next release? To the very best of my knowledge, it will not be sprung on the unsuspecting 3.0 release. Instead, it will probably be turned on as the default a couple of weeks after the release, so that people tracking 3.0 will transition, but those using 3.0 flat will not. -- \\ 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