Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 04:42:32 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: core group topics Message-ID: <199707311142.EAA28471@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:01:28 %2B0200." <1272.870346888@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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>In message <20284.870334493@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >>> I agree. How long have we had to discuss it so far? I think you'll have >>> to agree, it's been more than long enough. It feels more like a case of >>> "if we ignore it long enough, maybe it'll go away." There are ways to >> >>Well, that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that >>a significant percentage of people looking at the whole idea have so >>far gone "No, I'm outright OPPOSED to this idea. I do not want ELF." >>It's not as passive a situation as you might think. > >Are we getting the kernel & userland mixed up here ? I belive there >is strong agreement for ELF for the kernel... There is? I don't recall discussing that at all, and if we do eventually go the ELF way, I think the kernel would be one of the last areas we'd want to convert since it further complicates our cramped bootblocks. The only issue I have against ELF is that I'm concerned that the overhead for processing the much more sophisticated header at exec time might have a serious impact on exec performance (something I'm particularly sensitive to since I wrote the a.out exec code for FreeBSD). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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