Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:01:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF kernel? Message-ID: <19981003100101.H2176@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810030033.RAA02872@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:33:01PM -0700 References: <19981003095236.D2176@freebie.lemis.com> <199810030033.RAA02872@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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