Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:52:24 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <199901112152.NAA25190@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901112124.NAA97427@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 11, 1999 1:24: 1 pm"
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According to Matthew Dillon: > > But, most importantly, there has been a general trend towards ELF in the > last decade and getting on that bandwagon is important, especially if we > want to maintain native compatibility with Linux and other operating > systems. The importance of maintaining compatibility cannot be > underestimated. Actually, hasn't FSF dropped support/development of a.out tools. So, if FreeBSD wants to continue to use FSF compiler technology, then we are compelled to move forward to ELF. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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