Re: Binutils 2.15

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:47:18PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:18:26PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:12:11PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > > > mips-ecoff:	FAIL: ar symbol table
> > > > 
> > > > [~300 more] Eric, should we fix mips-ecoff or destroy it?
> > > 
> > > I don't think that destroying it would be a very good option.  It's
> > > still needed for free operating systems that run on DECstations.
> > 
> > Can you give an example?  The only use I know was Linux (and BSD?)
> > kernel images for the boot firmware, and I don't think that the
> > mips-ecoff target is used for that any more.  I could be mistaken.
> 
> AFAIK the only current use of mips-ecoff WRT Linux is for arcboot
> (a bootloader for SGI machines), and for objcopy'ing kernel images.

Does arcboot need a mips-ecoff targeted binutils, or just objcopy from
ELF also?

> 
> > Aha, Linux uses OUTPUT_FORMAT("ecoff-littlemips").  So we can't remove
> > the ecoff support, but might be able to remove the mips-ecoff target
> > itself.
> 
> Huh? Linux uses elf-tradlittlemips.

I was referring only to arch/mips/dec/boot/ld.ecoff.  Sorry for not
being clear.

In any case, it sounds like we're stuck with mips-ecoff for this
release.  I'll just ignore the failures.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer