Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:02:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Carlos C. Tapang" <ctapang@easystreet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What would it take to build the FreeBSD kernel into Portable Executable (PE) format? Message-ID: <199809300602.AAA08304@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:40:42 PDT." <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex> References: <000701bdec02$92e7dac0$0d787880@apex>
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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
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