Subject: Re: netbsd/arla
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/16/1999 11:19:40
In article <199902160606.WAA03845@elbe.ghs.com> ross@ghs.com (Ross Harvey) writes:
>Johan Danielsson wrote an ELF loader and has LKM's working on his alpha.
>
>I should have checked in his work a long time ago, I had it in my tree
>but removed it in order to build a release or snapshot or something. A lame
>excuse, I suppose ... there was a minor problem with compile rules that
>I don't think was in his work at all.
>
>Anyway, it was revived last week when I referred the i386 ELF project to
>joda's mods. It's kind of funny to see it brought up here just a few days
>later. I would say we should have LKM's on alpha in the next few days...
>
What I am concerned about is having many pieces of code that do
almost the same thing. [I.e. load a file into memory] We already
have this code for the boot blocks, each architecture gets its own
copy... We should consolidate that. I've done some work on it on
the i386 stand/lib/loadfile.c, and we should clean it up a bit more
and reuse it.
christos