Subject: Re: mop booting -current?
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@college.dtcc.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/21/2004 10:31:30
Chris Tribo wrote:

> 
> 	Do we have anything to convert from elf or ecoff to a.out? I
> thought PMAX machines could mop boot ecoff kernels. Apparently this is not
> the case? I use to mop boot my VAX from a pmax machine, but someone said
> the mop code was too "VAXcentric" to work with other archs. Is that still
> true or is the compiler/elf2ecoff to blame here?
> 
> MAXine# mopchk netbsd.ecoff
> Checking: netbsd.ecoff
> RSX Image
> Header Block Count: 0
> Image Size:         00000000
> Load Address:       00005270
> Transfer Address:   00000200

All three fields are certainly wrong.  What does

	objdump -h netbsd.ecoff

have to say?  That'll check whether elf2ecoff is working or not.
I thought I recalled mopd working for pmax/ecoff in the distant
past...

Simon.
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