From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 21:40:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05459 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05451 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA04860; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:10:20 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id QAA93719; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:10:20 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:10:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Marty Leisner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which release is elf based? Message-ID: <19990126161019.O66239@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901260512.AAA03629@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901260512.AAA03629@rochester.rr.com>; from Marty Leisner on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:12:09AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 26 January 1999 at 0:12:09 -0500, Marty Leisner wrote: > > A few weeks ago, I looked at the freebsd pages and didn't find > anything useful about elf... > > Is 3.0-RELEASE elf based? That depends on your terminology. Let's say: 2.2 supports ELF 3.0 has ELF by default, but an a.out kernel. 4.0 (and 3.1) have everything ELF, and require the new bootstrap in order to load the kernel. Everything should be backwards compatible: 4.0 can still run a.out, and the new bootstrap should still load old kernels. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message