On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 12:09:15PM +0800, Chan Yiu Wah wrote:

> Having visit the ftp.netbsd.org, I found that NetBSD-1.4.1 is there. I would
> like to know ... is it in ELF format ? Thanks

Depends on architecture.

in 1.4.1, as in 1.4:

.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "alpha" || \
    ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "mipsel" || ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "mipseb" || \
    ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "powerpc" || \
    ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "sparc64"
OBJECT_FMT?=ELF
.else
OBJECT_FMT?=a.out
.endif

1.4.1 is no major release, so there are no major changes, but mostly bug
fixes.

However, this is the native format only.

E.g, the 32bit sparc can use EXEC_ELF and COMPAT_SVR4 options to the kernel
to execute Solaris ELF binaries.
i386 can execute Linux ELF binaries with EXEC_ELF and COMPAT_LINUX.

Regards,
	-is