Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:45:18 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF kernels: When? Message-ID: <19980422004518.25051@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199804220650.XAA01906@usr06.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 06:50:57AM %2B0000 References: <199804220650.XAA01906@usr06.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert scribbled this message on Apr 22: > I would like to run an ELF kernel. > > Specifically, I would like to experiment with abstracting libkern > as a seperate ELF segment in the running kernel that I could map > into a program's address space via a section aware dlopen() (sort > of a poor man's "libelf"). I would hack the loader to not load > the (shared object) section type I'd use for this. > > This would tend to fix the !@#$%! "ps: proc size mismatch ..." > messages, once and for all. > > So, per the subject: "ELF kernels: When?". well, one of the requirements to elf kernel is going to be link_elf.c being writen... otherwide, elf kernels will NEVER happen (either elf kernels or improved bus/device design)... so when will that happen? as far as elf kernels, I thought a few people were running the kernels using jdp's elfkit... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem Rev/FAX: +1 541 346 9237 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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