From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 27 10:28:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20387 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:28:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20379; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA80574; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:28:06 -0800 (PST) To: Ruslan Ermilov cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: ALERT: New Jordan's a.out->ELF upgrade is broken!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:09:51 +0200." <19990127200951.A19404@ucb.crimea.ua> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:28:05 -0800 Message-ID: <80570.917461685@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't cross-post to both -hackers and -stable, use one list. > 1. It will not install new boot blocks (see message below). > 2. It will not build ELF kernel with ELF config and ELF tools > on a running 2.2.X. (Am I right)? > 3. It gives no chance to revert, because it installs ELF world > before new boot blocks and new kernel get installed. There is still more work which needs to be done on the ordering and TOC for what's installed. Your own changes were overly simplistic and had other problems of their own. I'll be further refining this over the next couple of days - I just took "kickme" to 4.0 with it and only one failure (to reboot, which was comparatively minor). This is and harder problem to solve than you seem to give it credit for, and I'd also appreciate it if you'd start sending me diffs rather than commentaries. Don't tell me what you THINK it does or should do, show me changes which have been empirically proven to do it better. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message