From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 13 16:36:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21489 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21474 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id BAA23134; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 01:35:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 01:35:33 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Peter Wemm , Studded , Mike Smith , Edwin Culp , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF kernels (was: Make elf release) References: <3622D416.E2E627AC@gorean.org> <199810130909.RAA29552@spinner.netplex.com.au> <19981014075310.V21983@freebie.lemis.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 14 Oct 1998 01:35:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:53:10 +0930" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA21479 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > On Tuesday, 13 October 1998 at 17:09:30 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > IMHO, whether /kernel is a.out or elf is far less of an issue than which > > bootblocks we use. > I'm not sure whether you're talking about the same issue that Doug > (Studded) is. I think moving to an ELF kernel 2 days before code > freeze would be a disaster. ...but switching to Elf-aware boot blocks would not affect the kernel, and would make a later transition to an Elf kernel less painful for those who install 3.0-RELEASE from scratch. I think this is what Peter meant. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message