Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 19:17:23 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include asnames.h Message-ID: <199810040117.TAA26663@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199810040111.LAA13228@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199810040111.LAA13228@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans writes: > >> ELF was considered a possibility when asnames.h was added in April. 1997. > > > >Not in my book. Maybe in 'core', but certainly not to the 'peanut > >gallery comitters'. > > Read your commit mail. I have since day-one religiously, and even review commits. It's still too much 'magic' stuff to assume that we were going to have 3.0 completely ELF'ized. I don't believe you can prove that it was obvious that modifications to asnames.h was necessary for ELF, and the FreeBSD was going ELF in April. I've got the commit email saved to prove it, so I challenge you to show me via the commit email that this was a *requirement* for all kernel developers to know. >From the very first commit message: revision 1.1 date: 1997/04/22 06:55:32; author: jdp; state: Exp; Make the necessary changes so that an ELF kernel can be built. ... Nate
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