In article <199910152013.WAA00610@rumolt.teuto.de>,
Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de> wrote:
>As far as I understand this, NetBSD ELF kernels don't have the note section
>we stick in the userland binaries (to get emulation right) simply because 
>our kernel makefiles don't create them.
>
>IMHO the request to give a bootloader (not *our* bootloader) some mechanism
>to tell a NetBSD kernel from a FreeBSD one is not that unreasonable and the
>solution seems cheap.
>
>So besides the off-topic discussion whether we like, want, need or are going
>to actively support GRUB, why don't we just change the kernel build process
>and add the notes section?

I totally agree.

christos