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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:01:07 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pcvt/132 columns
Message-ID:  <19970311020107.UK51160@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703110007.RAA24037@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mar 10, 1997 17:07:39 -0700
References:  <19970311001735.QB63298@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199703110007.RAA24037@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

(ELF-aware boot loaders)

> 1)	Which of these two will FreeBSD support by default?

Both.  One has been submitted as patch against the FreeBSD bootstrap,
the other one is a standalone product.

> 2)	When?

Right now (at least GRUB -- i'm afraid the old patch is stale
meanwhile).

Sure, it's another matter when FreeBSD might start to use ELF as the
default kernel format.  However, perhaps John first needs to integrate
his ELFkit into the regular tree.  That's something like a
prerequisite...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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