From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 25 6: 8:21 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77F9F37B401; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 06:08:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from lanczos.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 25 Feb 2001 14:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:08:14 +0000 From: David Malone To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 bioscall.s locore.s Message-ID: <20010225140814.A30554@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200102250744.f1P7ieV91620@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102250744.f1P7ieV91620@freefall.freebsd.org>; from peter@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:44:40PM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:44:40PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > This is little more than an academic curiosity anyway since all it is > good for is situations where the boot code is hard wired, eg: rom > bootstraps (such as the gnat box). An alternative option is to compile an elf kernel and then use "kzip -f aout" to produce an aout gzipped image of an elf kernel. The aout loader should be able to use that. This is what we're using for our 40 odd xterminals that we don't really want to have to reburn eproms for. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message