Re: No bzImage target for MIPS

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:46:04PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Last i had a look elf2ecoff and addinitrd were not really nice
> recovering from toolchain problems like pages of null between sections
> which was a common fault a couple months back. This lead to addinitrd
> not beeing able to attach a ramdisk that the kernel would be able to
> find it. 
> 
> BTW: Shouldn't objcopy be able to convert an ELF into an ECOFF ?

In theory yes, in practice that was found to be so problematic that we
just gave up and use those NetBSD tools.

  Ralf