From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 12 2:16:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6AC514F83; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 02:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11x637-000DrV-00; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:16:17 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17078; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:16:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <385375FD.4DC0EFF7@scc.nl> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:16:29 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Takahashi Yoshihiro Cc: msmith@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world is failed on pc98 References: <19991211230552P.nyan@dd.catv.ne.jp> <38526700.70C5CBF@scc.nl> <199912120121.RAA00570@mass.cdrom.com> <19991212131847U.nyan@dd.catv.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote: > > > BTW: Is there a special reason to have boot2 in aout? > > Because nobody transplant from the i386 boot2 :-). > FreeBSD(98) porting team is always suffering from a shortage of > workers. > > In article <199912120121.RAA00570@mass.cdrom.com> > Mike Smith writes: > > > Only in the longer term, I think. How hard would it be to port the 'new' > > i386 boot2? > > There are few people who are knowledgeable about pc98 boot sequence. > And that we all have our regular work. So, it is very difficult to > port the i386 boot2 to pc98. Please correct me if I'm wrong while I'm drawing the picture: Since pc98 only has a specialized boot2 and thus shares boot0 and boot1 with other architectures, it can be assumed that an ELF boot2 doesn't need any special hacking in boot0 and/or boot1, right? boot2 is already capable of loading ELF, right? Isn't it therefore enough to just compile boot2 as ELF? In other words, what are the problems? -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message