From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 10:45:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17277 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:45:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles334.castles.com [208.214.167.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17271 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00827; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:43:32 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808151043.KAA00827@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Polstra cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:05:16 MST." <199808151705.KAA17832@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:43:31 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > And supposedly the ELF kernel is bootable nowadays with a few > > patches; do lkm's work? > > I doubt we'll have time to switch the kernel to ELF before 3.0 > release. The lkm system will not be ported for ELF, we will be using kld instead. Since this is close to my work on the bootstrap, and loading ELF kernels is about all that it's not getting right, I'm reasonably optomistic that this will indeed be ready at least as an option if not the default. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message