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Re: recent binutils and mips64-linux
- From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>,Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto at toshiba-tops dot co dot jp>,Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at debian dot org>, linux-mips at linux-mips dot org,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:57:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: recent binutils and mips64-linux
- References: <1063988420.2537.5.camel@ghostwheel.sfbay.redhat.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1030919182314.9134K-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
[snip]
> > two different things. I believe that for a 64-bit kernel either -mabi=64
> > or -mabi=n32 (-mlong64) are the right long term answer, part of Daniel's
> > problem was that his bootloader couldn't deal with ELF64.
>
> I've successfully converted ELF64 Linux images to o32 ELF32, with
> `objcopy' and then to COFF even, with `elf2ecoff' (provided with the Linux
> sources). The resulting COFF image used to work with the DECstation's
> firmware. I suppose the intermediate ELF32 one would work with
> ELF-capable firmware, too.
I booted the ELF32 file via the delo bootloader and it worked.
Thiemo