Re: multiboot2: remove "a.out kludge" requirement

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Friday 17 November 2006 22:10, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> One requirement listed for multiboot2 was that ELF headers should be
> ignored, because NetBSD was setting their ELF addresses incorrectly.
> This has now been fixed (see
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32865), so I've
> removed that requirement.
>
> ELF headers tell you where to load an executable far better than the
> kludge, so it really doesn't make sense to ignore ELF.

Still, it is sometimes useful to override information. I do not think it is 
necessary to change the behavior.

Okuji