From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 31 05:11:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA02984 for current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (critter.phk.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA02978 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00246; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:10:27 +0200 (CEST) To: dg@root.com cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD current From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: core group topics In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 04:42:32 PDT." <199707311142.EAA28471@implode.root.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:10:27 +0200 Message-ID: <244.870351027@critter.dk.tfs.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199707311142.EAA28471@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes: >>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. Have you looked at multiboot/GRUB from Eric Boleyn (sp?) yet ? > 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). Well, I belive a.out will still be an option or how ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.