rumble@NetBSD.org wrote:

> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/arch/sgimips/conf: Makefile.sgimips.inc
> 
> Log Message:
> Revert the change to using objcopy in 1.9. Our present objcopy solution
> results in unbootable ecoff kernels ("malloc_type_attach: bad magic"
> panic). Maybe this could be fixed with appropriate flags, but elf2ecoff
> produces working ecoff kernels and ecoff bootloaders, which was the reason
> for the switch in the first place.

Maybe it's because -current kernel has too many link_set sections.
It was one of reasons why I wrote NetBSD/arc bootloader.
(though I didn't try elf2ecoff at that time)
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Izumi Tsutsui