From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA05774 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 05:07:48 -0600 Sender: adevries@feather.thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <37624146.A7B5F0FE@thepuffingroup.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:15:18 -0400 From: Alex deVries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: law@cygnus.com CC: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] booting problems References: <22030.929169143@upchuck.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Jeffrey A Law wrote: > Okay, I can make that change, unless someone beats me to it. > > Though I'm a little confused. I thought y'all were dropping the existing ELF > stuff -- I would strongly recommend it. We're not even planning to keep the > existing elf32-hppa stuff building in gas/binutils as we work on the rewrite. > You're working with a totally dead and unsupported toolchain at this point. Let me clear this up. Yes, we are absolutely dropping any use of the current broken instantiation of elf32-hppa. However, there's this time gap between now and when we actually have the new toolchain from Cygnus. During this time, the only thing that we expect to work on is the kernel and bootloader. Having just those two components building with the current gcc and linker are important. When Cygnus delivers a new toolchain, we'll go for that. If we don't do it this way, the only toolchain we'll have is hosted on HPUX, which I want to avoid if I possibly can. The fix-build-boot-restart cycle is muuuuch faster if you can cross compile and netboot, particularly for those people who only have one HPUX machine and slow connectivity to the HPUX box that HP has online for us. Does that make sense? - Alex