Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:25:08 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: jake@locore.ca Cc: jmallett@freebsd.org, perforce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review Message-ID: <20021012.202508.121567815.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca> References: <200210122211.g9CMBh5K040057@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca>
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Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> writes:
: Its often easier to just write a program that converts a binary from
: elf to <insert wierd format>. We do this for sparc64 where the prom
: wants an a.out binary (elf2aout), and I'm pretty sure for alpha which
: might actually use COFF (elf2exe).
Actually, objcopy does that fairly well in most cases. And we (or
NetBSD) already has an elf2coff and an elf2aout. I think that NetBSD
is migrating to the former, but I can't be 100% sure. I gotta get my
NetBSD arc box up and running since it requires ECOFF of a weird
flavor to boot...
Warner
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