Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 03:10:08 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from ancient to current... Message-ID: <19990630191008.803F182@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:29:18 -0400." <199906301829.OAA80498@cs.rpi.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"David E. Cross" wrote: > This is a bit of a tangent from the original post, but when did the FreeBSD > kernel start supporting ELF natively (not talking about Linux emulation). > I made the mistake of attempting to run a 3.0 ELF world with a 2.2.5 > kernel, and it worked (mostly). I was unaware that anything that "old" > supported ELF. 2.2 supported ELF quite some time before 2.2-stable was branched, for almost as long as ELF binaries were supported under Linux emulation... Native ELF support was added nearly for free. The main thing that'll break is that 3.x kernels and libraries have syscalls that do not exist in 2.x and you'll get SIGSYS's etc. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990630191008.803F182>