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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. 
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Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:11:08 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Except that the boot program needs to read an ECOFF image off the disk
> in the ARC console (based on comments of others plus my experience
> with ARC BIOS mips machines).  So some way of generating these ECOFF
> files must exist.  Fortunately, the elf2ecoff that was written for and

I don't think that's necessary - MILO isn't an ECOFF binary, for
example, yet the loader seems to read it in and jump to it just fine
(from the ARC console).

					Jordan