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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 05:17:56 -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:  <199707311217.FAA28904@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:10:27 %2B0200." <244.870351027@critter.dk.tfs.com> 

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>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 ?

   No, but I am somewhat familiar with it. If we want to use it without GPL
restrictions, we have to remove the ELF support (since it is GPL'd) - a.out
support isn't encumbered (or at least Erich was willing to change the
copyright terms so that it is not).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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