From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 11 13:46:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05556 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05551 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA25190; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:52:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199901112152.NAA25190@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? In-Reply-To: <199901112124.NAA97427@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 11, 1999 1:24: 1 pm" To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:52:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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