Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:09:17 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <199811110509.NAA08393@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:44:48 PST." <199811102044.MAA00415@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > I'm just wondering when we're going to switch the kernel to ELF and > > put /usr/src/sys/modules into the build path. I'd really like the > > /usr/bin/linux command to start doing the right thing on current 3.0 > > SNAPshots, among other things. :-) > > I think we're about ready to do it. We probably want to insist that > people cut over to the new bootstrap first, perhaps with a HEADS UP > announcement from someone that hasn't cried wolf before. Just something to tickle everybody's sense of perverse.. You can load ELF kld modules into an a.out kernel and vice versa... /boot/loader will not let you do this, but the kernel does it (and does the right thing as far as I've seen). Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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