From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 4 11:45:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA20861 for current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA20828 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:44:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA09392; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:43:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971204114318.45788@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:43:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: sos@FreeBSD.dk Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? References: <21843.881240246@time.cdrom.com> <199712041401.PAA05418@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199712041401=2EPAA05418=40sos=2Efreebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Thu=2C_Dec_04=2C_1997_at_03=3A01=3A0?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?3PM_+0100?= Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Søren Schmidt scribbled this message on Dec 4: > In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > > 3.0 will be one _hell_ of a milestone. > > > > Especially if we manage to do the ELF transition before then. :-) > > Oops, that triggered my bad concience :) > > Well, we (John P, Peter, myself) have had ELF running on our test > systems for quite some time now, the userland stuff is all there > (give or take). Its possible to boot an ELF kernel, but we need > to do some serious work on the bootblocks if they are going to > support BOTH a.out & ELF. also, if we are going to move to ELF, we also need to write a kernel linker for the ELF libs too... right now we only have an a.out linker.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD