recent binutils and mips64-linux

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
Fri Sep 19 16:42:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Eric Christopher wrote:

> >  I think "-mabi=64" is OK (I use it for over a year now) and for those
> > worried of every byte of precious memory, "-mabi=n32 -mlong64" might be
> > the right long-term answer (although it might require verifying if tools
> > handle it right).  Given the experimental state of the 64-bit kernel it
> > should be OK to be less forgiving on a requirement for recent tools. 
> 
> OK as in "it works for me", and OK as in "this is the correct usage" are

 Well, my "OK" is of both kinds. 8-) 

> two different things. I believe that for a 64-bit kernel either -mabi=64
> or -mabi=n32 (-mlong64) are the right long term answer, part of Daniel's
> problem was that his bootloader couldn't deal with ELF64.

 I've successfully converted ELF64 Linux images to o32 ELF32, with
`objcopy' and then to COFF even, with `elf2ecoff' (provided with the Linux
sources).  The resulting COFF image used to work with the DECstation's
firmware.  I suppose the intermediate ELF32 one would work with
ELF-capable firmware, too.  Of course I had to make sure the addresses
seen by the firmware in the file headers fit the 32-bit address space
(KSEG0, actually; KSEG1 might work, too). 

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