Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:43:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: sos@FreeBSD.dk Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <19971204114318.45788@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> 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_%2B0100?= References: <21843.881240246@time.cdrom.com> <199712041401.PAA05418@sos.freebsd.dk>
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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
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