From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 11:06:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14454 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14367 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:06:26 GMT (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA06631; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:06:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:06:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Kapil Chowksey cc: John Polstra , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting ELF shared libs into a.out shared libs In-Reply-To: <199804171551.LAA15913@inssun5.hns.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Kapil Chowksey wrote: > An ELF->a.out converter might actually be a neccessity for the sparc > port. Sparc OpenBoot can only boot from a.out images. There is one > existing for UltraLinux already. Which is why the bootstraps would be in a.out format and know how to pull up an ELF kernel... (in a perfect world) /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message