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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-(
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:37:41 -0700 (MST)
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> : 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?

I have a machine that almost has a pure ELF user space (shells, etc.)
built with John's ELFKit.

The only piece I'm missing is the kernel loader, and I can't just
use the Linux one (this was discussed in detail a while back), so
my kernel is the missing piece.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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