Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:01:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: buildworld/installworld, minor inconsistancies Message-ID: <199809171601.JAA00405@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:30:55 MDT." <199809170630.AAA14759@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <199809170539.NAA28385@spinner.netplex.com.au> Peter Wemm writes: > : I "fixed" this at home by making doscmd.kernel be built in -aout > : mode. The doscmd driver program just has a simple a.out loader. > : Making it understand elf wouldn't be too hard and is probably the > : right thing - or use some other simple format that binutils can > : generate. > > Hmmm. Lots of ELF loaders around. I'll have to give this a whirl. > I'd hate doscmd to be the only reason to have aout-like code enabled > in the compiler. Once the kernel and lkms are ELF, I think this is > the last thing... While you're at it, shift the doscmd kernel load address to something like 16M rather than 1M. It should actually all be pretty easy. -- \\ 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
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