From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 12:44:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (mti-r1-aptis-4-p1997.cybertrails.com [162.42.15.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E80315BFC for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@ginger.kf7nn.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ginger.kf7nn.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA04308; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:43:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from root) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:43:44 -0700 (MST) From: laszlo vagner To: Doug White Subject: Re: vpo driver Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, laszlo vagner Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG okay... What are the advantages if any to ELF format. ?? On 25-May-99 Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 1999, laszlo vagner wrote: > >> I just cvsupped to 3-2-stable and made world >> and recompiled the kernel with the vpo >> zip driver and wanted to say that it >> works great and I commend you people >> on adding this functionality to the >> kernel! > > Wow, a positive report from the vpo driver! Amazing! > >> I used the old version and always had >> a hell of a time to get it to work >> this time i uncommented one line and it >> worked upon rebooting. >> >> so after all this noise here is my >> stupid question... What is "ELF" kernel >> anyway!? > > ELF is a binary format used in 3.X (as opposed to a.out, used in 2.X and > before). > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org ---------------------------------- Vetex C/O L. Vagner 3600 W. Mountain Drive Flagstaff, AZ 86001 E-Mail: laszlo vagner Date: 25-May-99 Time: 12:42:49 Windows Exception Error: noun: Meaning- With the exception of a reboot anything you do will fail to recover the system. ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message