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. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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