From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 31 08:24:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15039 for current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley01.res.iastate.edu (friley01.res.iastate.edu [129.186.189.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15025 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley01.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley01.res.iastate.edu (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA14268 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:27:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199707311527.KAA14268@friley01.res.iastate.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: core group topics In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:49:25 -0400. Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:27:49 -0500 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >2) John Polstra's ELF work. He's done all the work that anyone could >possibly want, to move FreeBSD to ELF. There are several good reasons to >move, and none excepting inertia not to. I know that moving FreeBSD to >ELF isn't a high priority project, but all the work's been done, the >benefits are real, and it's high time to consider it. As an aside.. from the past discussions about Doug Rabson's work on a new module system--It sounded as if things would be considerably simpler if we were to use an ELF kernel from the start. By the way, can anyone comment how things are going with respect to this? Chris