From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 14:27:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20486 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20453 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA24814; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:26:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:26:44 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Ben Smithurst cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aout or elf? In-Reply-To: <19981230102403.A22620@scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, I have found out that OBJFORMAT does not effect kernel itself the kernformat=elf in make.conf effects it. but I would like to know what advantage I will have if I have elf kernel? I already have my binaries as elf when I compile right? On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > hello, I am using 3.0 release, how can I know > > if I use aout or elf? > > The `objformat' program will tell you. ELF seems to work very well here. > Remember that if you use an ELF kernel you'll have to use the new boot > loader. > > -- > Ben Smithurst > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk > > send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message