Re: [PATCH]: for poor sools with old I2 & 64 bits kernel

[Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>]

>>>>> "thiemo" == Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

thiemo> Juan Quintela wrote:
>> >>>>> "thiemo" == Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>> 
thiemo> Juan Quintela wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Hi
>> >> this small patch made possible to compile a 64bit kernel for
>> >> people that have old proms that only accept ecoff.  As usual
>> >> stolen from the 32 bits version.
>> >> 
>> >> The easiest way is creating the file in arch/mips/boot,
>> >> otherwise we need to copy elf2ecoff.c to mips64.
>> 
thiemo> Sorry, but I plainly doubt you have tested this.
>> 
thiemo> I tried such a method today, and elf2ecoff failed to work on ELF64 files.
thiemo> Maybe a recent enough objcopy is the better choice for this purpose.
>> 
>> I tested it and it works :)

thiemo> How is this possible, given that elf2ecoff uses Elf32_* variables to
thiemo> process the ELF file? elf2ecoff might be bad enough at error checking
thiemo> to produce some binary garbage.

>> Notice that I am using egcs for MIPS64 as I am not able to compile the
>> kernel with gcc-3.2 :(

thiemo> I don't think this is compiler dependent. :-)

from  arch/mips64/Makefile:

#
# Some machines like the Indy need 32-bit ELF binaries for booting purposes.
# Other need ECOFF, so we build a 32-bit ELF binary for them which we then
# convert to ECOFF using elf2ecoff.
#
ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_ELF32
GCCFLAGS += -Wa,-32 $(shell if $(CC) -Wa,-mgp64 -c -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "-Wa,-mgp64"; fi)
LINKFLAGS += -T arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32
endif

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