Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:31:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199802100831.AAA00459@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:06:49 GMT." <199802100806.BAA20965@usr05.primenet.com>
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> > > Actually, the problem is all the a.out cruft being in there as well. > > > > How much smaller is the ELF loader? > > Not that much smaller. But it's having both that's the problem. Understood. > > > Or you could write an ELF program which, when loaded from the boot > > > blocks that understood ELF, would load a.out kernels. > > > > Please do. 8) > > I'll think about it; it's pretty trivial, I'm betting, except where > the "extras" are concerned (they made some things vastly more complex, > unfortunately). Which things do they complexify, and how? I'm not really attached to the way that the current "extras" stuff works; if there is a more ELF-friendly way to do it, then I'm all ears. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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