From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 07:06:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08366 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 07:06:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-23-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08359 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 07:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA18843; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:05:04 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199812311505.RAA18843@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FLAG DAY COMING (was Re: New aout-to-elf build failures.) In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Dec 31, 98 03:48:54 pm" To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:05:01 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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