Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:03:25 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make elf release Message-ID: <199810130903.RAA29497@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:17:44 MST." <199810130117.SAA01131@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > Due to a parity error in my memory:-) I forgot to remove my > > KERNFORMAT=elf system variable before making release and much to my > > surprise it made it through kernel creation. It looks like we will soon > > be able to make a 100% elf release. Has anyone done it? How important > > is it. Here's the result from my log before I redo it with an out > > kernel, if anyone is interested. > > There's some (understandable) resistance to putting an ELF kernel in > 3.0, so the changeover will probably happen a few weeks afterwards. At > that stage we'll shift to the new bootloader as well. > > I don't expect that ELF kernels will be supported for 3.0-RELEASE, > although you will be able to build and experiment with them. ELF kernels have been fully functional for about a week. LKM's don't work with ELF though, you have to use kldload instead of modload, and that's not cooked enough yet. For example, you can't load a VFS (eg the nfs module) via kldload yet. Or, more to the point, you can load it but it has no way to attach itself to the VFS switch. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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