Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> (1) a 'good' way of actually determining whether or not an ELF binary
> is for NetBSD/Alpha needs to be come up with and implemented.  I've
> asked 'core' what to do about that several times, and haven't gotten a
> real answer that i could actually go and implement, and which solves
> the identification problems.

I just hope that whatever is used will cause linux elf loaders to not
accept the binary.

> Once ELF + dynamic linking support is ready for public consumption,
> i'm going to be publishing diffs to gcc 2.7.2.1, binutils 2.7, and gdb
> 4.16, as well as build processes that (hopefully) will take you from
> 1.2 and -current (i.e. what's publically available at that time) to
> the new style of executables.

I assume I can compile new kernels though, using the 1.2 source tarballs,
right?

--Michael