From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 14 01:32:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA22140 for alpha-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 01:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnostic.cynic.net (gnostic.cynic.net [198.73.220.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA22134 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 01:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by gnostic.cynic.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA09349; Wed, 14 May 1997 01:31:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gnostic.cynic.net: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 01:31:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@gnostic.cynic.net To: Peter Wemm cc: John Polstra , Warner Losh , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. In-Reply-To: <199705140501.NAA07188@spinner.DIALix.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 May 1997, Peter Wemm wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > : ... NetBSD-current is using ELF on > > > : the Alpha now. > > > > FWIW, they're using a hacked-up version of my ElfKit dynamic linker. > > I saw this.. Have you had a look at what they've done? Is it enough to > call "complete"? What do you mean by `complete'? Both the alpha and the pmax ports are completely ELF-based, and I use the former as my main server at home. PowerPC also uses ELF, and there's been a bit of work on an m68k version, I understand. What does FreeBSD need here that NetBSD doesn't? cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. `And malt does more than Milton can Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 To justify God's ways to man.'