Juan Quintela wrote: > >>>>> "thiemo" == Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes: > > thiemo> Juan Quintela wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> this small patch made possible to compile a 64bit kernel for > >> people that have old proms that only accept ecoff. As usual > >> stolen from the 32 bits version. > >> > >> The easiest way is creating the file in arch/mips/boot, > >> otherwise we need to copy elf2ecoff.c to mips64. > > thiemo> Sorry, but I plainly doubt you have tested this. > > thiemo> I tried such a method today, and elf2ecoff failed to work on ELF64 files. > thiemo> Maybe a recent enough objcopy is the better choice for this purpose. > > I tested it and it works :) How is this possible, given that elf2ecoff uses Elf32_* variables to process the ELF file? elf2ecoff might be bad enough at error checking to produce some binary garbage. > Notice that I am using egcs for MIPS64 as I am not able to compile the > kernel with gcc-3.2 :( I don't think this is compiler dependent. :-) Thiemo
