On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:56:08PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 	Sorry for rather stupid question, but I believe this may ease
> 	people's path.
> 	When was the support for ELF binary imporated?
> 	Is it correct that bootblocks from NetBSD 1.4 is recent enough?

The support for ELF was present in the tree for a while, but it
wasn't used by default. Now it is, since /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk
sets OBJECT_FMT to ELF for the i386. I changed this with the
following commit:

===
Module Name:    sharesrc
Committed By:   fvdl
Date:           Mon Jul  5 09:13:05 UTC 1999

Modified Files:
        sharesrc/share/mk: bsd.own.mk

Log Message:
Switch the i386 port to ELF.
===

The 1.4 bootblocks are indeed recent enough, they are able to load an
ELF kernel.

- Frank