Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:03:36 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns Message-ID: <19970311190336.HN58888@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199703111736.KAA25534@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mar 11, 1997 10:36:04 -0700 References: <19970311020107.UK51160@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199703111736.KAA25534@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Again, which will FreeBSD *support* by default? Until I can CVSup the > piece down, it is unsupported. Ah, sorry, i've got your question wrong. I simply don't know. There has been a plea for GRUB one day, but no decision yet either. OTOH, if the ELF patches would still fit, and won't bloat the loader too much, _and_ i had an ELF-capable ld(1) around in the tree, it's perhaps a matter of an afternoon to commit them. > > However, perhaps John first needs to integrate > > his ELFkit into the regular tree. That's something like a > > prerequisite... > > John wanted to do this (his last posting about it in -current makes it > clear), but was facing opposition. Maybe, but that's no reason to at least establish the prerequisites. As long as our tools don't support ELF, we don't even need to discuss if and when we might make it our default format (or not). Having it in the tree is simply necessary first (where i don't wanna say that it should become the default output format by the same time, it should for sure remain optional first). As long as i can't create an ELF kernel at all, i'm not going to commit any changes to the bootloader. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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