From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA08033 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:40:21 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.linuxcare.com) (216.88.157.131) by mailserv2.iuinc.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2000 17:42:22 -0000 Received: from ottawa.linuxcare.com (HELO linuxcare.com) (216.208.98.2) by smtp.linuxcare.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2000 17:42:09 -0000 Sender: adevries@mailserv2.iuinc.com Message-ID: <3A1037F0.826C9D8C@linuxcare.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:50:24 -0500 From: Alex deVries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhazeghi@pacbell.net CC: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [Semi OT] SOM Linker References: <3A0F7D5B.4A70CB73@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: dhazeghi@pacbell.net wrote: > However I would like to know what work if any has been done on the SOM > linker which HP released to the public last November(?). It seems that > as of right now, it has not been touched since February 14, and the FSF > binutils snapshots still do not have any SOM support for ld. Has there > been any movement in merging this in, or is anybody working on this? The initial plan was to do our 32-bit userspace with SOM, worrying about ELF32 much later in the game. But ELF32 development happened a lot quicker than expected, and so nobody's really done much on the SOM linker. I suspect it'd be very hard to use the SOM linker code to incorporate it into binutils, but I could be wrong. What are you actually trying to do? - Alex -- Alex deVries, Principal Solutions Architect, The Puffins at Linuxcare 613.562.2759 tel alex@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare, Support for the revolution.