On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:25 -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Martin Fouts wrote:
> 
> >> We have 3rd party vendors that would prefer to deliver binaries and
> > prefer to use ARM's compilers. We are finding that when RVCT generates
> > EABI code it is not compatible with NetBSD. Structure alignment turns
> > out to be a significant problem for us.
> 
> Correct.  NetBSD does not support the ARM EABI.  There are a variety  
> of reasons for this, and back when I worked on the ARM GCC, I seem to  
> recall that Richard Earnshaw even said that the EABI wasn't really  
> appropriate for NetBSD.
> 

Nope, I do think I ever said that (the problem was that the EABI was
still in development at the time we needed to freeze our ELF
implementation).  In fact, I'd like to see NetBSD supporting the EABI
now that it has stabilized.  We'll need to have some support in the
kernel anyway in order to support more recent ARM/Linux binaries.

R.