From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 27 20:37: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889EC37B626; Sat, 27 May 2000 20:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA30828; Sat, 27 May 2000 21:36:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA49359; Sat, 27 May 2000 21:36:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005280336.VAA49359@harmony.village.org> To: Jaye Mathisen Subject: Re: Kernel making problems Cc: John Baldwin , Otter , -questions , -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 May 2000 20:29:14 PDT." References: Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:36:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message