From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 30 16:19:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from stephens.ml.org (cm2081634025.ponderosa.ispchannel.com [208.163.40.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3E514DFB for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:19:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tas@stephens.ml.org) Received: from stephens.ml.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stephens.ml.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA36066; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:19:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from tas@stephens.ml.org) Message-Id: <199903310019.BAA36066@stephens.ml.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: Kelly Yancey , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Thomas Stephens From: Thomas Stephens Subject: Re: support for larger memory In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:12:32 PST." <199903302212.OAA13245@implode.root.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:19:05 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > BSD/OS compatibility for v2.0 static binaries can be had again with a >few modifications. Someone with access to BSD/OS v2.0 binaries, time, and >appropriate knowledge, just needs to make them. > The brokeness actually comes from a design screwup that BSDI made in >the v2.0 crt0 which they apparantly later fixed in v3.0. We should be able >to run v3 and later static binaries. We've never had support for any >version of their shared binaries. Speaking of which, are there any plans to support BSD/OS 4.0 ELF binaries, either static or shared? I expect most binaries for BSD/OS will eventually be distributed in ELF format, but the likelihood that they'll use dynamic linking complicates things. I'd be willing to make an effort to contribute, but haven't got access to BSD/OS 4.0 (don't know if I've got the requisite knowledge either). None of the BSD/OS binaries I use have been converted to ELF yet, but I'll certainly miss them if they are (though, if they use shared libraries, it may not matter anyway). Thomas Stephens tas@stephens.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message