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Date:      Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:43:31 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF problems to occur 
Message-ID:  <199808151043.KAA00827@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:05:16 MST." <199808151705.KAA17832@austin.polstra.com> 

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> > And supposedly the ELF kernel is bootable nowadays with a few
> > patches; do lkm's work?
> 
> I doubt we'll have time to switch the kernel to ELF before 3.0
> release.

The lkm system will not be ported for ELF, we will be using kld 
instead.  Since this is close to my work on the bootstrap, and loading 
ELF kernels is about all that it's not getting right, I'm reasonably 
optomistic that this will indeed be ready at least as an option if not 
the default.

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\\  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



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