On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 03:10:02 -0400 (EDT) 
 The Source of All Evil <source@NetBSD.ORG> wrote:

 > The previous revision of elf.c replaced Ted Lemon's elf exec machinery
 > with something closer to Christos' MI elf machinery. It turns out
 > that old NetBSD/pmax elf binaries have three segments, and the newer
 > elf exec machinery cannot exec them. 
 > 
 > The old elf exec machinery is folded back into cpu_exec.c, which falls
 > back onto using the old machinery if the new machinery fails. The
 > old-style binaries will be deprecated at the 1.2 release.

This is a perfect candidate for a COMPAT_11/COMPAT_10 compatibility 
clause.  I don't see any good reason why the ability to run the old 
programs should go away completely.

Maybe a good name for the old ELF code would be mips/mips/elf_compat.c

Ciao.

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