From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJQ3W-00012G-9H for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:13:30 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJQ3U-00011b-H5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:13:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJQ3S-00010P-Mn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:13:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJQ3S-00010K-Gp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:13:26 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJQ3S-0003dv-AS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:13:26 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJQ3N-0007Lk-7R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:13:23 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJQ1d-0003fa-RH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:11:33 +0100 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:11:33 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080128091133.GA14058@thorin> References: <20080127194135.GA7041@thorin> <20080127200634.GA8249@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] a.out kernel loader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:13:29 -0000 On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:10:42AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > > > > > > > How FreeBSD-specific is this? Will the same module apply to other a.out > > > > binaries ? (I ask since you gave it a generic name) > > > > > > it's an old format of the unix system: > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.out > > > > I know.. I was referring to your loader. > > it should be generic, but i only test it using the loader from freebsd. In that case, I'd suggest putting it directly in loader/ (without i386/pc/). Moving files on CVS is a PITA :-/ -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)