From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 16 05:45:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA07503 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 05:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA07495 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 05:45:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA14771; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:53:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808161253.WAA14771@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: <35D6B6C7.C9ABD9C0@pipeline.ch> from Andre Oppermann at "Aug 16, 98 12:39:03 pm" To: oppermann@pipeline.ch (Andre Oppermann) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:53:12 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andre Oppermann wrote: > John Birrell wrote: > > > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Loading an ELF kernel with the new bootstrap is pretty easy. I did it > > > > today on the alpha. It should be possible to use the same ELF loader for > > > > i386 with some extra work. > > > > > > Was this a NetBSD ELF kernel or a FreeBSD ELF kernel? 8-). > > > > FreeBSD/Alpha is now using a native kernel. I'm about to remove all the > > NetBSD kludges from libc that provided the NetBSD syscall interface we've > > used until now. > > Pls. tell me when it's time to buy an Alpha box! Would a FreeBSD/Alpha 3.0 release be sufficient for you to do that? It might be called a beta release, or perhaps a snapshot. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message