Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:07:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF kernels: When? Message-ID: <199804281707.KAA00622@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:09:14 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980427090239.344C-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> > I spent some time this weekend doing exactly that. I pulled NetBSD's > libsa, libz and i386/stand into our tree and hacked on them until they > built. I made some ugly hacks in there to construct FreeBSD style > bootinfo and slice stuff, so it should boot most things. I haven't > actually tried it on a real machine (my scratch box is in pieces) but it > works fine under bochs (bochs is a godsend for this kind of work :-). I'm wondering how you got it to compile. 8( It patches OK onto -current, but doesn't build due to not finding stand.h and libkern.h. > If anyone is interested, the hacked sources are in > freefall:~dfr/netbsdboot.diff.gz. I think they should apply cleanly. If > they don't tell me. Consider yourself told. 8) If you want a real challenge, how about pulling libsa out seperately, and making the libz build from the standard libz sources. I still dream of extricating the bootloader from the kernel. 8) ... and just for dessert, I take it you were only building the biosboot loader? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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