From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 20 15:13:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA29565 for current-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr02.primenet.com (tlambert@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.6.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29559 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA01350; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:11:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709202211.PAA01350@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: running binutils 2.8, elf support? To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 22:11:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709202039.WAA04762@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at Sep 20, 97 10:39:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Not really, but there is work underways to make FreeBSD convert > to ELF. Peter Wemm, John Poltra and Myself have been working on > this lately, and we have our test systems running all ELF, so > it not that far away... Including the booting kernel? Any of them SMP? I ran into problems when I tried to build an ELF SMP kernel with John's original (28 bytes shy of filling the space) dual ELF/a.out boot blocks. > It wont happen overnight though, as there are ALOT of details > that needs to be sorted out, before we attempt to "morphe" > -current into ELF. Anything I can do? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.