From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 24 May 2005 16:01:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:18187 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 May 2005 16:00:44 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4OF08cH016983; Tue, 24 May 2005 16:00:08 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j4OF08YG016982; Tue, 24 May 2005 16:00:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:00:08 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Stanislaw Skowronek , Richard Sandiford , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Unmatched R_MIPS_HI16/R_MIPS_LO16 on gcc 3.5 Message-ID: <20050524150008.GC13850@linux-mips.org> References: <20050524142245.GG4383@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7967 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:50:16PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > The kernel ELF binary is too complicated for objcopy to cope with. Fixing > > objcopy to handle this case correctly turned out to be hopeless but with > > a little linker script magic it's possible to keep the kernel vmlinux file > > within what elf2ecoff can deal with. > > Well, it used to work for me the few times I tried, except from that MIPS > III magic number problem. But that's not a binutils' fault. That's because you haven't booted 2.6 on DECstations yet ;-) I'm sure you'll have some elf2ecoff fun ... Ralf