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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 1998 07:12:37 -0500
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Make elf release
Message-ID:  <362343B5.D45924D4@webwizard.org.mx>
References:  <199810130117.SAA01131@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith wrote:

> > Due to a parity error in my memory:-) I forgot to remove my
> > KERNFORMAT=elf system variable before making release and much to my
> > surprise it made it through kernel creation.  It looks like we will soon
> > be able to make a 100% elf release.  Has anyone done it?  How important
> > is it.  Here's the result from my log before I redo it with an out
> > kernel, if anyone is interested.
>
> There's some (understandable) resistance to putting an ELF kernel in
> 3.0, so the changeover will probably happen a few weeks afterwards.  At
> that stage we'll shift to the new bootloader as well.
>
> I don't expect that ELF kernels will be supported for 3.0-RELEASE,
> although you will be able to build and experiment with them.

Thanks for the info.

I understand but don't necessarily agree.  Why put it off?  I have 100% elf
machines running in different environments and one as a production server.  I
have only had a few problems with the boot loader and the elf kernel at the
beginning.  I 'm using the standard complementary programs, compiled as elf,
X11, samba, shlight, tac_plus, apache1.3.3, squid, mysql3.22 and everything
works better than expected.  Everyone should be very proud.

Just one persons opinion:-)

ed


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