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. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
