From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 23:58:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA13043 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:58:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi [130.234.41.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13027 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kallio@localhost) by beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA01116; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:57:03 +0200 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:57:02 +0200 (EET) From: Seppo Kallio To: Terry Lambert cc: questions@freebsd.org, questions@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Is there plans to implement ELF into FreeBSD/NetBSD? Linux has it. In-Reply-To: <199601291744.KAA03766@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I did search FAQ etc. on www.freebsd.org but fould nothing about ELF. > > > > Is there plans to implement it into NetBSD and/or FreeBSD? > > What do you feel is the compelling reason to support ELF instead > of a.out as the native binary format? Maybe I do not know what you mean with a.out native, or what ELF is ... I have been told: We have Sun machines. If FreeBSD supports ELF I can run Sun Solaris i386 binaries in FreeBSD. I can also run Linux ELF binaries. I can also run many other ELF i386 binaries. ELF is more OS independed because it is calling library functions by name. The big problem in FredBSD, NetBSD, Linux is the lack of good application software: Word processing for example as a primary tool for microcomputer users. Maybe I am 100% wrong? One common binary format sounds very nice. If you try to build Linux emulator, Solaris emulator, SCO emulator etc. I think it is a big task. Building one ELF "emulator" sounds better. (is there SCO ELF ;-) I do not know). Ah this talk is form Linux people, they speak about ELF ... Seppo