From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 2 17:31:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29673 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:31:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29659 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA09216; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:01:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA07417; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:01:02 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981003100101.H2176@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:01:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF kernel? References: <19981003095236.D2176@freebie.lemis.com> <199810030033.RAA02872@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810030033.RAA02872@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:33:01PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 2 October 1998 at 17:33:01 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >>>>> I use 'strip -g' for ELF kernels. If your kernel is a.out, you probably >>>>> need 'strip -aout -d'. >>>> >>>> any idea on the expected cutover to ELF kernels? >>> >>> Perhaps Sunday or so. There are a few variables left, but no more than >>> a couple of days before it's ready. >> >> Oh. What does that mean for LKMs? > > They become KLD modules. The actual source-level changes are pretty > minimal. Where can I find out about them? Where do they go in the tree? Do I need to commit any additional modules? >> Isn't this a bit late in the Beta to start changing kernel formats? > > There's mixed opinion on this; at the moment we just want to get the > tech out there for people to play with it. The big kicker is that if > we *don't* change now, we'll have yet another big-gulp change point in > front of the 3.0.x stability release, which will also be Bad. > > You can build an ELF kernel right now (just set KERNFORMAT to elf), and > if you're up to date with the new bootstrap (as of about now) you can > boot it just like it was an a.out kernel. It's not going to help me much if I don't have my KLDs handy. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message