Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:25:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.NET> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808151123220.3237-100000@zone.syracuse.NET> In-Reply-To: <199808150051.KAA10489@cimlogic.com.au>
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No, of course we're not going to be removing support for the FreeBSD a.out format, I would never expect us to! However, we really do need to start coordinating a bit with everyone working specifically with ELF. Perhaps temporarily hub should have another mailing list, freebsd-elf? Cheers, Brian Feldman green@unixhelp.org On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > The transition from a.out to ELF will not be easy; I see some definite > > potential hangups: > > We are not burning support for aout - just planning to change the default > to elf. The answers to some of the points you raise depend on work being > completed by various people. If none of this work is completed, 3.0 will > ship with everything installed elf except the kernel, lkms, boot objects. > I say this based on the state of what support is in the tree now plus > patches that exist but haven't been committed. > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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