From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 17 08:57:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29412 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles166.castles.com [208.214.165.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29399 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00405; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809171601.JAA00405@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: Peter Wemm , Matthew Dillon , committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: buildworld/installworld, minor inconsistancies In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:30:55 MDT." <199809170630.AAA14759@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:01:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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