Re: Patch: Switch Linux/mips to stabs

["Aaron J. Grier" <aaron at frye dot com>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:12:39AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Is it really needed to remove ecoff-littlemips and ecoff-bigmips
> targets from the list of default ones for MIPS/Linux?  COFF is the
> format used by the firmware of certain MIPS-based machines for
> network-booting, certainly by DECstations and I'm told that older SGI
> workstations use this format, too.  While the elf2ecoff tool as
> bundled with the kernel seem to be sufficient to prepare a suitable
> COFF image, it's grossly limited in functionality and was added only
> as a workaround to bugs in binutils.

Jason Thorpe in the NetBSD camp was able to persuade binutils to
generate bootable MIPS ECOFF kernels via objcopy.  If objcopy indeed
works, it would be nice to see elf2ecoff go away.  :)

The patch to BFD is here:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mips/2001/06/07/0001.html

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