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Re: recent binutils and mips64-linux
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>, Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto at toshiba-tops dot co dot jp>, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at debian dot org>, linux-mips at linux-mips dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:46:31 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: recent binutils and mips64-linux
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > OK as in "it works for me", and OK as in "this is the correct usage" are
> > two different things. I believe that for a 64-bit kernel either -mabi=64
> > or -mabi=n32 (-mlong64) are the right long term answer,
>
> A third answer is to add a -msign-extend-addresses switch in the assembler.
> Together with -mabi=64 this would produce optimized ELF64 output.
Hmm, what do you exactly mean -- is that what I am worrying about?
> > part of Daniel's
> > problem was that his bootloader couldn't deal with ELF64.
>
> Well, implementing an ELF64 bootloader ins't that hard. :-)
That depends on how hard it's to replace some firmware. Using a
secondary boot loader is not always feasible, either.
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