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Prelink for mips (Re: MIPS broken in 2.3)
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>,GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>,binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:10:32 -0800
- Subject: Prelink for mips (Re: MIPS broken in 2.3)
- References: <u8ellzsg3q.fsf@gromit.moeb> <20011213093958.A6057@lucon.org> <hou1uqclnk.fsf@gee.suse.de> <20011217123631.G542@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:36:31PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> instead (well, best would be if somebody ported prelink to mips;
> I'll try to answer any questions and help).
Do you have some documentations how prelink works?
> I skipped mips because it is way too different from how any other ELF
> architecture works (e.g. using a single dynamic reloc type for everything
> with various meanings, etc.) and I have no access to it.
That is what I am afraid of. The MIPS ABI supports "quickstart". I
don't know if we can add prelink to mips without breaking/changing
the MIPS ABI. I don't want to spend my time on it if it can't be done
at all.
H.J.