> > It allows me to boot all Indys and O2s off the same binary. Nice for boot > > CDs. Especially that Octanes and Origins should be bootable from another > > one... just like IRIX. > 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? Yes, exactly. > 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. I tried objcopy (it was my first thought), for one reason or another it didn't work (internal BFD error something). Reportedly ECOFF is belly-up in current GNU binutils - at least it is what I heard. > Trying to support GNU extensions in ECOFF is probably hopeless and not > worth the hassle and the file format is likely to be obsoleted by the > toolchain soon (if not already done), except from BFD -- which'll let you > continue doing `objcopy', `objdump', etc. My input is elf32-tradbigmips. So I entirely don't care for binutils' ECOFF anymore, and I consider this a good thing. As I said, objcopy didn't work at all. Fixing BFD is not my job (it's a monster of Frankensteinian proportions), I think that it is actually much easier to write my own converter (well, I did it, and it works - except that funny HI/LO mismatch I'm going to work around). Stanislaw
