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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:10 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, rnordier@nordier.com, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c 
Message-ID:  <199905251902.MAA00471@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 11:48:44 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990525114609.1082D-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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> We use the old bootblocks in production
> (thousands and thousands of machines). We don't use teh sources in FreeBSD
> as we have some hacks of our own. As long as an aout kernel can continue
> to be built and loaded by th e old bootblocks we are ok.
> When that stops working we'll have to do some hard work I guess.

This is exactly why the loader is still an a.out object.

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\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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