From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 08:27:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06556 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 08:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zone.syracuse.NET (zone.syracuse.net [205.232.47.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06551 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 08:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@zone.syracuse.NET) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by zone.syracuse.NET (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA03361; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:25:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:25:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman To: John Birrell cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: <199808150051.KAA10489@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, of course we're not going to be removing support for the FreeBSD a.out format, I would never expect us to! However, we really do need to start coordinating a bit with everyone working specifically with ELF. Perhaps temporarily hub should have another mailing list, freebsd-elf? Cheers, Brian Feldman green@unixhelp.org On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote: > 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