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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 21:36:42 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, -questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, -current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Kernel making problems 
Message-ID:  <200005280336.VAA49359@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 May 2000 20:29:14 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005272028160.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005272028160.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005272028160.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> Jaye Mathisen writes:
: Wasn't there just a big to-do wrt to 4.0 (then -current), about the right
: way to do things is to install a new kernel, then build the world?

Yes.  That was needed for a while since the new binaries produced code
the olkd kernel couldn't execute.

: I seem to remember Rod championing this method.  (Had something to do with
: some syscall interface changing).

Yup.

However, with the changes to binutils and also the kernel .s files, we
have no choice.  You'll need at least the binutils.

Warner


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