From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 11:40:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23187 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:40:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23113 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01962; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 19:39:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 19:39:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: <199808151043.KAA00827@word.smith.net.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 On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. Loading an ELF kernel with the new bootstrap is pretty easy. I did it today on the alpha. It should be possible to use the same ELF loader for i386 with some extra work. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message