Re: Non "new-toolchain" platforms

[Jason R Thorpe <thorpej%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:01:19AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:

 > One issue that has arisen, currently cats support both the Cats board by 
 > simtec, and (although I've not tried as I've not got one) the EBSA board 
 > from 
 > Intel.   I'm not quite sure where this leaves us if simtec do allow the cats 
 > board to boot from ELF kernels.  I have emailed simtec again though.

Which firmware does the EBSA-285 board use?  RedBoot?  If so, it'll load
S-Records, too.

 > Note if this doesn't work is it possible to get gcc to output a.out files, 
 > by 
 > using a switch?  Or would we be better looking at having a kernel compile 
 > package?

No, you'd have to have a separately targeted GCC.

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