From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 28 11:20:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23763 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:20:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23756 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00622; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804281707.KAA00622@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Doug Rabson cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF kernels: When? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:09:14 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:07:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I spent some time this weekend doing exactly that. I pulled NetBSD's > libsa, libz and i386/stand into our tree and hacked on them until they > built. I made some ugly hacks in there to construct FreeBSD style > bootinfo and slice stuff, so it should boot most things. I haven't > actually tried it on a real machine (my scratch box is in pieces) but it > works fine under bochs (bochs is a godsend for this kind of work :-). I'm wondering how you got it to compile. 8( It patches OK onto -current, but doesn't build due to not finding stand.h and libkern.h. > If anyone is interested, the hacked sources are in > freefall:~dfr/netbsdboot.diff.gz. I think they should apply cleanly. If > they don't tell me. Consider yourself told. 8) If you want a real challenge, how about pulling libsa out seperately, and making the libz build from the standard libz sources. I still dream of extricating the bootloader from the kernel. 8) ... and just for dessert, I take it you were only building the biosboot loader? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message