From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 7 12:37:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02718 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02535; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:37:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01555; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:37:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA22536; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:37:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 13:37:07 -0700 Message-Id: <199901072037.NAA22536@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julian Elischer Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 In-Reply-To: References: <199901070652.WAA07084@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I strongly believe that the elf kernel should have a different name.. > e.g. /FreeBSD *sigh* > this will ensure that only new bootblocks will find it and old bootblocks > will find the old kernel lying about. > this may save some people some grief. The bootblocks are fully capable of figuring out what kind of kernel it is by looking at the magic # at the front of the kernel. Changing the kernel name is silly, and there is no technical reason to do so. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message