Dear Collegues,
SPARC PROM requires a.out images to boot and the rest of Linux/SPARC
was planned to be ELF-only. But I had some troubles with ELF-->a.out linkage
with binutils-2.5.8 for SPARC. I wrote a simple filter which converts a
bootable image of a kernel form ELF to a.out. It is somewhere at
vger.rutgers.edu under /pub/linux/Sparc/... Sorry for disturbtion if
this note is not interesting.
I wonder which version of gld/BFD can link ELF object code with a.out
result without a coredumps (at MIPS). IMHO, this solution is better than
ad hoc tools. I want to adopt it for SPARC. Why Ralf called it 'ugly'?
Best wishes,
Pete
>> For the first time, the boot loaders will be able to load mipsel 407
>> executables
>> (from ufs in the 'rz' case), but they should be aware of the ELF/ext2fs
>> combination too.
>
>If that makes live easier for you - the ELF linker has no problem in linking
>ELF files together and then producing an a.out file. This is ugly and
>has several disadvantages but could make live easier as long as we don't
>have real ELF loader code ready.
>
> Ralf
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