Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > Also not that with the current patchset applied, there are now 2 > > > segments that need to be loaded, hopefully it won't cause any issues > > > with any bootloaders out there that would assume that an image has > > > only one segment... > > > > This breaks at least conversion to ECOFF as used on DECstations. > > Indeed, thanks for pointing it out -- I use ELF over MOP and keep > forgetting about people preferring TFTP, sigh. I wonder whether `objcopy' > might be doing a better job than `elf2ecoff' these days though. It may be > worth checking... The problem seems to be that (DECstation-firmware's view of) ECOFF can only handle a single .text segment. > It all boils down to padding out what cannot be expressed in a less > capable format after all. That's what I did in `mopd' for ELF support too > -- holes between segments are transmitted as zeroes. AFAICS this won't work for interleaved .text / .data / .bss segments. Thiemo
