Re: recent binutils and mips64-linux

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
[snip]
> > two different things. I believe that for a 64-bit kernel either -mabi=64
> > or -mabi=n32 (-mlong64) are the right long term answer, part of Daniel's
> > problem was that his bootloader couldn't deal with ELF64.
> 
>  I've successfully converted ELF64 Linux images to o32 ELF32, with
> `objcopy' and then to COFF even, with `elf2ecoff' (provided with the Linux
> sources). The resulting COFF image used to work with the DECstation's
> firmware.  I suppose the intermediate ELF32 one would work with
> ELF-capable firmware, too.

I booted the ELF32 file via the delo bootloader and it worked.


Thiemo