From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 18:36:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DD3514EF2; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:36:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941C51C6D; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:36:06 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mark Newton Cc: mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx (Eduardo Viruena Silva), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3, DISKLESS, kernel format must be AOUT ? In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Newton of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:15:46 +1030." <199911230145.MAA32216@gizmo.internode.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:36:06 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991123023606.941C51C6D@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Newton wrote: > Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > FreeBSD 3.3 uses ELF format and previous versions (2.x.y) use AOUT format. > > You should be able to build an a.out kernel by putting > > makeoptions KERNFORMAT=aout > > into your kernel config file. Also, the plan is that it should one day be possible (one day) to use /boot/ loader (which is an a.out image) and have it pull the kernel and modules down via tftp or minimal NFS or something. That of course requires real-mode network card drivers, or Intel's PXE (preboot execution environment) to catch on. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message