From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 11:01:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15723 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:01:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uniqsite.uniqsite.com (uniqsite.com [209.249.66.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15707 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:00:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gfish@uniqsite.com) Received: from localhost (gfish@localhost) by uniqsite.uniqsite.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA19477; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gfish@uniqsite.com) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: Gold Fish To: Greg Lehey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which release is elf based? In-Reply-To: <19990126161019.O66239@freebie.lemis.com> 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 On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 2.2 supports ELF > 3.0 has ELF by default, but an a.out kernel. > 4.0 (and 3.1) have everything ELF, and require the new bootstrap in > order to load the kernel. > > Everything should be backwards compatible: 4.0 can still run a.out, > and the new bootstrap should still load old kernels. > What is going to happen to the new bootstrap? Please elaborate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message