From owner-cvs-all Tue May 25 12: 4:18 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548F31583F; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:04:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00471; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905251902.MAA00471@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Bruce Evans , 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 11:48:44 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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