From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 14:41:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17043 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17020 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA13299; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 07:48:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808152148.HAA13299@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: <199808152125.OAA23138@usr01.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 15, 98 09:25:01 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 07:48:58 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. > > Was this a NetBSD ELF kernel or a FreeBSD ELF kernel? 8-). FreeBSD/Alpha is now using a native kernel. I'm about to remove all the NetBSD kludges from libc that provided the NetBSD syscall interface we've used until now. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message