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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:01:36 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: buildworld/installworld, minor inconsistancies 
Message-ID:  <199809171601.JAA00405@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:30:55 MDT." <199809170630.AAA14759@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <199809170539.NAA28385@spinner.netplex.com.au> Peter Wemm writes:
> : I "fixed" this at home by making doscmd.kernel be built in -aout
> : mode.  The doscmd driver program just has a simple a.out loader.
> : Making it understand elf wouldn't be too hard and is probably the
> : right thing - or use some other simple format that binutils can
> : generate.
> 
> Hmmm.  Lots of ELF loaders around.  I'll have to give this a whirl.
> I'd hate doscmd to be the only reason to have aout-like code enabled
> in the compiler.  Once the kernel and lkms are ELF, I think this is
> the last thing...

While you're at it, shift the doscmd kernel load address to something 
like 16M rather than 1M.  It should actually all be pretty easy.

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