On Tue, 24 May 2005, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Do they use a different load address so that you keep an "almost fully
> > linked" relocatable (i.e. with all objects already included, but still
> > done with "-r") and do the final link differently for each of them? If
> > this is the case you should be able to keep that "almost fully linked"
> > relocatable as ELF and then just do the final link using ELF and then
> > `objcopy' to ECOFF. That should work for most of the cases, although I've
> > seen problems with firmware not recognizing MIPS III ECOFF binaries
> > expecting a MIPS I one instead. AFAIK, `objcopy' doesn't allow you to
> > force a different magic number upon a conversion -- this is probably the
> > last reason `elf2ecoff' hasn't been removed from the Linux tree yet (and
> > you can use the tool indeed if you hit this problem).
>
> The kernel ELF binary is too complicated for objcopy to cope with. Fixing
> objcopy to handle this case correctly turned out to be hopeless but with
> a little linker script magic it's possible to keep the kernel vmlinux file
> within what elf2ecoff can deal with.
Well, it used to work for me the few times I tried, except from that MIPS
III magic number problem. But that's not a binutils' fault.
Maciej
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