Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:43:23 -0600 From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: Kapil Chowksey <kchowksey@hns.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting ELF shared libs into a.out shared libs Message-ID: <199804180443.WAA00794@pencil-box.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:51:45 EDT." <199804171551.LAA15913@inssun5.hns.com> References: <199804171551.LAA15913@inssun5.hns.com> <199804150924.RAA01162@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <199804151008.DAA28074@austin.polstra.com>
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In message <199804171551.LAA15913@inssun5.hns.com> Kapil Chowksey writes: : An ELF->a.out converter might actually be a neccessity for the sparc : port. Sparc OpenBoot can only boot from a.out images. There is one : existing for UltraLinux already. There are similar issues with doing a port to the ARC (R4x00 based) machines. The standard only supports ECOFF booting. netbsd and openbsd have tools in their tree for this already. However, converting an image is easy (relatively speaking). converting a library that might have system calls and oddball system dependent data structures to deal with is much much harder... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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