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
