From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 10:50:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18057 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18048 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18030; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199808151750.KAA18030@austin.polstra.com> To: Mike Smith cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:43:31 -0000." <199808151043.KAA00827@word.smith.net.au> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:50:09 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. That's good news! -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message