From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 13 05:13:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15993 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 05:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.webwizard.net.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15988 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 05:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Received: from webwizard.org.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by dns.webwizard.net.mx (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA12702; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 07:12:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Message-ID: <362343B5.D45924D4@webwizard.org.mx> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 07:12:37 -0500 From: Edwin Culp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make elf release References: <199810130117.SAA01131@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Thanks for the info. I understand but don't necessarily agree. Why put it off? I have 100% elf machines running in different environments and one as a production server. I have only had a few problems with the boot loader and the elf kernel at the beginning. I 'm using the standard complementary programs, compiled as elf, X11, samba, shlight, tac_plus, apache1.3.3, squid, mysql3.22 and everything works better than expected. Everyone should be very proud. Just one persons opinion:-) ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message