From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 14 17:46:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25534 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:46:47 -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 RAA25417 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:45:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA10489; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:51:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808150051.KAA10489@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: from Brian Feldman at "Aug 14, 98 12:21:24 pm" To: green@zone.syracuse.net (Brian Feldman) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:51:48 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-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 Brian Feldman wrote: > The transition from a.out to ELF will not be easy; I see some definite > potential hangups: We are not burning support for aout - just planning to change the default to elf. The answers to some of the points you raise depend on work being completed by various people. If none of this work is completed, 3.0 will ship with everything installed elf except the kernel, lkms, boot objects. I say this based on the state of what support is in the tree now plus patches that exist but haven't been committed. -- 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