From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 14:18:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E650C16A4D0 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailserv1.neuroflux.com (mailserv1.neuroflux.com [204.228.228.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D8343D5C for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 57017 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2004 21:18:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www2.neuroflux.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Apr 2004 21:18:59 -0000 Received: from 63.226.178.14 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ryans@gamersimpact.com) by www2.neuroflux.com with HTTP; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:18:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <49216.63.226.178.14.1082755139.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:18:59 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ryan Sommers" To: hackers@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Method of compiling boot0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:18:12 -0000 I was browsing over the boot0 makefiles and source when I was playing with some boot sector code of mine and I was wondering why the designers chose to use objcopy to output a binary file instead of just using the --oformat option when it's run over the linker. I'm guessing it's just 6 of one and half dozen of the other but was just curious incase there was actually some difference. Ryan -- Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers Gamer's Impact President ryans@gamersimpact.com ICQ: 1019590 AIM/MSN: leadZERO -= http://www.gamersimpact.com =-