From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, GDB , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Patch: Switch Linux/mips to stabs Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 23:23:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010607232258.A28273@lucon.org> References: <20010607103546.A14690@lucon.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00042.html On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:12:39AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, H . J . Lu wrote: > > > * config.bfd: Remove ecoff from Linux/mips. > > Is it really needed to remove ecoff-littlemips and ecoff-bigmips targets > from the list of default ones for MIPS/Linux? COFF is the format used by > the firmware of certain MIPS-based machines for network-booting, certainly > by DECstations and I'm told that older SGI workstations use this format, > too. While the elf2ecoff tool as bundled with the kernel seem to be > sufficient to prepare a suitable COFF image, it's grossly limited in > functionality and was added only as a workaround to bugs in binutils. > Sorry. I put it back. H.J. ---- 2001-06-07 H.J. Lu * config.bfd: Put back ecoff for Linux/mips. Firmwares on some MIPS-based machines need it.