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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: core group topics 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.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