In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.990625132717.21272B-100000@marcy.nas.nasa.gov>,
Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Older macppc firmware can only reliably boot xcoff files. I'd like to be
>able to let people download files, throw them on a MacOS floppy, and then
>boot them. Thus for the older machines, they'd need to be xcoff files
>(well one of them).
>
>So how can I make them? objcopy can turn an elf file into an xcoff one,
>but those files don't work - I get "bad o_magic" errors. Todd suggests
>that the problem's that objcopy can't merge sections. 
>
>Suggestions? What's the difference between ecoff & xcoff? Could elf2ecoff
>be pressed into service?
>
>For ref: 
>
>The linuxppc installer.coff file has the following sections:
>
>.text, .data, .bss, initrd, image
>
>ofwboot.xcf (an objcopy --target==xcoff-powermac file) has:
>
>.text, .rodata, .sdata2, .data, .got, .sdata, .sbss, .bss
>

Link the ELF with -N or -n?

christos