From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 25 11:01:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29337 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-29-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29330 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA19622; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:59:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811251859.UAA19622@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Changing the load address of the kernel? In-Reply-To: <199811251832.KAA79623@whistle.com> from Doug Ambrisko at "Nov 25, 98 10:32:08 am" To: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:58:56 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Robert Nordier writes: > | When an ELF kernel becomes standard, I'd be strongly in favor of > | moving even existing code like dosboot into ports. There is > | precedence for this: mkisofs, for instance. > > That sounds reasonable, I guess I could make the etherboot stuff into > a port and put the patches in there for loading FreeBSD aout/elf kernels. I'm sure folks would appreciate it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message