Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:05:01 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FLAG DAY COMING (was Re: New aout-to-elf build failures.) Message-ID: <199812311505.RAA18843@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812311546280.20475-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Dec 31, 98 03:48:54 pm"
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > This seems one of those cases where the aims of PicoBSD and FreeBSD > > itself diverge to the extent that optimum results require some > > custom development. > > ??? And what about the boot floppies? As I understand, they were using > a.out kernels up to this point, weren't they? > > Andrzej Bialecki (going to read the src/release/Makefile once more...) >From reading the archives, I got the impression no-one was too worried about the idea of going to a two-disk install. (By moving away from a monolithic kernel, less "likely" drivers could be moved to a second floppy -- or could be loaded from CDROM, etc -- so a lot of the time just a single floppy would be the norm.) As I mentioned, I don't think that fixing kzip to handle a monolithic ELF kernel is much work. We're just likely to want /boot/loader around anyway, so there's not much point in doing that (for FreeBSD itself). -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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