On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:45:59PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ralf Baechle writes: > : Does anybody still rely on the linker support for ECOFF binaries? I'd > : like to drop the ECOFF emulations (mipsbig and mipslittle) from ld. > > Doesn't LILO for the little endian ARC machines require this? You mean Milo ... Milo needs to be ECOFF but our compiler produces ELF output. Furthermore since we need relocatable ECOFF binaries for the SNI firmware (actually the specs require it, but only on SNI we really need it) we have to link PIC code to ECOFF. And that is way too strong stuff for ld to cope with. That's why we're using elf2ecoff which is now included with every Linux kernel. Ralf
