Would it be possible to borrow some code from the mvme68k port since they
recently moved to ELF?

Dave Rogers

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > I was wondering if there had been any progress towards moving to ELF
> > recently.  I'd love to offer my help to this cause.
> > 
> > What needs to be done for this to happen?  Any major code changes?  or
> > just rebuilding the sources according to the NetBSD-ELF FAQ?
> 
> There are at least three other steps:
> 
> 	* Update the assembly (.s and inline asm) to a slightly
> 	  different syntax that's compatible with the ELF assembler.
> 
> 	* Make sure that there are no dependancies on the structure
> 	  packing:
> 		a.out: struct { short a; long b; } is 6 bytes
> 			and &b is struct base + 2.
> 		ELF: struct { short a; long b; } is 8 bytes
> 			and &b is struct base + 4.
> 	  (IIRC ;-)
> 
> 	* The booter needs to understand and load an ELF kernel.  This
> 	  can probably be avoided in the short term by using objcopy to
> 	  convert ELF -> a.out just for booting.
> 
> I think that's it.
> 
> -allen
> 
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