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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 22:11:05 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt)
Cc:        leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: running  binutils 2.8, elf  support?
Message-ID:  <199709202211.PAA01350@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709202039.WAA04762@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at Sep 20, 97 10:39:35 pm

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> 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
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