Re: Moving to ELF...

["ali (Anders Lindgren)" <dat94ali%ludat.lth.se@localhost>]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> If anybody wants to help:
> 
> * The m68k ELF has different structure alignment properties than m68k a.out, 
> which is identical to m68k AmigaOS in this respect.

I'm not sure what this should mean because I know next to nothing about
a.out or AmigaOS hunk-format, but I'm sure someone will explain. :)
 
> Somebody should check all stuff passed between AmigaOS (loadbsd or bootblock)
> and kernel to see whether strange structures are involved. More about this
> issue can be found in the port-m68k archive at mail-index.netbsd.org.

Hrrm any idea where? I have always found that archive utterly useless,
since it's sorted on the one key nobody cares about -- date.

> * somebody has to check whether a kernel compiled with the new toolchain 
> actually (compiles and) runs correctly.

I have at least one machine (A4000, CyberStorm040-40mkII/SCSI), possibly
two (A3000/040-25) I can compile and try kernels on. Not sure if the
A3000 has enough disk for builds though (only one 540M disk available
for another OS).

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