Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 19:28:58 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: jake@locore.ca, perforce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review Message-ID: <20021012192858.A40288@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021012.202508.121567815.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 08:25:08PM -0600 References: <200210122211.g9CMBh5K040057@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca> <20021012.202508.121567815.imp@bsdimp.com>
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* De: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> [ Data: 2002-10-12 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review ]
> In message: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca>
> 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...
Much like some older flavors of SGI :/
I think you mean XCOFF? That's what some early OFW Macs use, and I seem
to recall having a discussion with Benno about an elf2xcoff. I was
never able to find adequate docs of the differences between {e,}coff
and xcoff to give it a go :/
And yeah, objcopy should be enough, I'd forgotten about that.
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