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From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>
To: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>,
        Studded <Studded@gorean.org>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>,
        Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ELF kernels (was: Make elf release)
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By all means, why not by default have sysinstall make a /boot.config with
'/boot/loader' in it? Or rather, it's quite easy to make the boot block
(1) just default to /boot/loader, so why not do that? IIRC, BTX now passes
an a.out kernel the correct params now.

Brian Feldman

On 14 Oct 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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
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