Binutils 2.15

[Thiemo Seufer]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:18:26PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:12:11PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > > mips-ecoff:	FAIL: ar symbol table
> > > 
> > > [~300 more] Eric, should we fix mips-ecoff or destroy it?
> > 
> > I don't think that destroying it would be a very good option.  It's
> > still needed for free operating systems that run on DECstations.
> 
> Can you give an example?  The only use I know was Linux (and BSD?)
> kernel images for the boot firmware, and I don't think that the
> mips-ecoff target is used for that any more.  I could be mistaken.

AFAIK the only current use of mips-ecoff WRT Linux is for arcboot
(a bootloader for SGI machines), and for objcopy'ing kernel images.

> Aha, Linux uses OUTPUT_FORMAT("ecoff-littlemips").  So we can't remove
> the ecoff support, but might be able to remove the mips-ecoff target
> itself.

Huh? Linux uses elf-tradlittlemips.


Thiemo