Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 07:13:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ade@demon.net Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199802080713.AAA27347@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <E0y1BoF-00013u-00@sphinx.lovett.com> from "Ade Lovett" at Feb 7, 98 09:04:47 am
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> I'm also starting to tinker with FreeBSD/ELF -- I've read John's > comments about the bootloader that supports both a.out and ELF > kernels being too big (presumably because it has the BAD144 cruft > in it as well). Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. > If we're serious about moving towards an ELF based system, then > something is going to *have* to disappear from the current biosboot > code in order to support a.out/ELF kernel loading - which means that > hard decisions are going to have to be made to determine what's going > to get deleted to make space for this extra code. > > BAD144 support in biosboot certainly seems to be a prime contender > for deletion to support any extra functionality. Or you could write an ELF program which, when loaded from the boot blocks that understood ELF, would load a.out kernels. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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