Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:17:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns Message-ID: <199703102117.OAA23536@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <19970309232455.XZ34405@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 9, 97 11:24:55 pm
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> > FreeBSD does not support ELF. > > Terry doesn't know anything about FreeBSD. > > > (For those who don't realize it: both statements above are equally > wrong. Although, i'm not fully sure how wrong my statement is. :) I can't load an ELF kernel with my a.out expecting boot blocks. Are you saying this has changed recenty? I was under the impression that not even John Polstra has an ELF kernel booting... it's not supported in the ELFKit I have (which is, itself, NOT distributed as part of FreeBSD). Now recent versions FreeBSD will load and run Linux, ELFKit, and other ELF binaries. But that is a result of having image activator code. FreeBSD has image activator code for IBCS2 COFF binaries, too, but it can hardly be said to support IBCS2, which implies a lot of environmental support on top of just the image activator. Likewise, until FreeBSD ships with the ability to generate ELF binaries... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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