From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 17:11:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14402 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA14392 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA17465 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:10:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11288; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:01:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970311020107.UK51160@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <19970311001735.QB63298@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199703110007.RAA24037@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703110007.RAA24037@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mar 10, 1997 17:07:39 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)