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From: "atul srivastava" <atulsrivastava9@rediffmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: problem with big endian binutils..?
Date: 12 Nov 2002 13:25:12 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021112132512.31137.qmail@mailweb34.rediffmail.com> (raw)

Have anybody confirmed stability of binutils for big endian 
mips?
while little endian gives me no problem
but i am simply unable to make a working big endian ramdisk.

specific problem is in identifying the e_type and e_machine fields 
in elf header of executables.
expected value of e_type is 0x2(ET_EXEC) amd e_machine is 
0x8(EM_MIPS)
but those are read as 0x200 and 0x800 respectivly ..this is 
obviously the endianness problem.

I have tried big endian ramdisk from 
ftp://ftp.ltc.com/pub/linux/mips/ramdisk/ramdisk
and also tried compiling one using uclibc package , both
failed because of same reason.

when i run file command on those executables after mounting the 
ramdisk on my host i get o/p like

ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS R3000_BE - invalid byte order, 
version 1, statically linked, stripped

though i see lot of mails regarding "invalid byteorder" but I 
didn't find specific suggestions.

if somebody has experienced similar problems , pls. give me 
guidance.

Best Regards,
Atul


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-12 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-12 13:25 atul srivastava [this message]
2002-11-12 16:23 ` problem with big endian binutils..? Daniel Jacobowitz
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2002-11-12 13:22 atul srivastava
2002-11-12 17:48 ` Ralf Baechle

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