On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This is NOT a toolchain issue he is talking about, but a kernel one.
> > > Please forget all about the toolchain issue. It is a non-issue. I and
> > > kan are the only ones that it has inconvinced. Everyone else has been
> > > able to totally ignore it. I'll probably do something about it next
> > > week.
> >
> >
> > I think that the ability to run 2.2.6 binaries should remain.
>
> So, you could live with 'options COMPAT_AOUT' or 'kldload i386_aout' or
> something like that?
for me that would be enough.
Can't speak for others though..
as on -hackers or somewhere..
maybe even on -announce
" Announce: Planned removal of default support for a.out "
and see if anyone screams :-)
>
> > the ability to generate them or even debug them
> > can be almost completely removed..
> > there are always other ways to do that....
> > (e.g. boot 2.2.6 in a vmware machine or run them in a
> > chroot)
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter
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