Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 19:39:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808151938290.2114-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199808151043.KAA00827@word.smith.net.au>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > And supposedly the ELF kernel is bootable nowadays with a few > > > patches; do lkm's work? > > > > I doubt we'll have time to switch the kernel to ELF before 3.0 > > release. > > The lkm system will not be ported for ELF, we will be using kld > instead. Since this is close to my work on the bootstrap, and loading > ELF kernels is about all that it's not getting right, I'm reasonably > optomistic that this will indeed be ready at least as an option if not > the default. Loading an ELF kernel with the new bootstrap is pretty easy. I did it today on the alpha. It should be possible to use the same ELF loader for i386 with some extra work. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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