From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 29 22:12:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08838 for current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08826 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA18750; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:41:01 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707300511.OAA18750@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Jul 29, 97 11:08:07 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:41:01 +0930 (CST) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, TLiddelow@cybec.com.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > In message <199707300429.VAA07677@austin.polstra.com> John Polstra writes: > : The people who recognize the benefits of moving to ELF are the ones > : who need to do the PR. The question is not "would ELF be better?" > : but rather "would ELF be _enough_ better to make it worth the pain > : of the transition?" > > I'm curious. Does anybody have a pure ELF FreeBSD system? Not yet. I'm tempted to try it though, or at least go as far as possible. One of the things that would help this _greatly_ is Sataoshi's New World Order patch, which hasn't seen much coverage lately. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[