From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 22:56:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09906 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:56:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09890 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:56:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id NAA08393; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:09:18 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199811110509.NAA08393@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:44:48 PST." <199811102044.MAA00415@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:09:17 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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