On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> AFAICT ecoff is only used on mips but, since ecoff is not an arch
> specific object format, it makes sense to make it a generic kbuild
> target, like elf, srec and bin. To that end, I looked at moving
> elf2ecoff and addinitrd to an arch independent directory so everybody
> could use those tools, alas both contain mips specific code. Any idea
> how much work is required to make elf2ecoff and addinitrd into generic
> utilities? Is it worth the effort or should they stay as mips only?
Elf2ecoff is probably going not to be used one day anymore, i.e. once
binutils are fixed. Right now there is a problem in marking ELF
executables impure (non-paged). Ultimately either objcopy or even ld
directly is going to be used for ECOFF binary creation.
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