From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 23:02:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29358 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA29353 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0zOFLH-0005wm-00; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:02:27 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA08304; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:02:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199809300602.AAA08304@harmony.village.org> To: "Carlos C. Tapang" Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:40:42 PDT." <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex> References: <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:02:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex> "Carlos C. Tapang" writes: : I have been watching with interest your progress in converting from aout to : ELF. I am not ELFish and am seriously considering the idea of starting all : over and converting, at least the FreeBSD core kernel, into Microsoft's PE : format. I understand that one of the things that need to be done is to : change the bootloader to recognize the PE format. Are there other things I : need to change? (The application loader will need to be modified also, of : course). You want to check out the cygnus window's port. Check out http://www.cygnus.com for details. It can create PE formatted executables. The kernel loadable modules interface would likely need to change as well. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message