From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 20 20:21:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA05573 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05557 Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA06487; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:20:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199603210420.VAA06487@rover.village.org> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... Cc: current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD current) In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:16:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 21:20:43 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : After a hectic week, Peter Wemm and I are proud to announce that : FreeBSD-current now has ELF support. This means that we are now : able to run native FreeBSD ELF binaries (generated with John : Polstras Elfkit-1.0.1) and Linux ELF binaries, and yes Linux : QUAKE finally works, at least as far as Peter & I has tried it : (Hey I dont have time to play) A while back someone asked me if they could do the following sick thing: Compile FreeBSD kernel, put it on a linux box, run lilo pointed at this kernel, and reboot and have their "Linux" box suddenly be a "FreeBSD" box running all their Linux stuff. Is that now possible? Or are there too many kernel things that would preclude this (eg no ps, netstat, etc)? Why do this? Well the machine in question was a network hub that was too overloaded with Linux and he wanted to run FreeBSD on it. Yet he couldn't bring it down long enough to install all of FreeBSD.... Warner P.S. This is my sick and twisted way of saying "Cool!"