Re: Build ELF support into OF manually?

[Andrew Cagney <cagney%tpgi.com.au@localhost>]

Excerpts from mail: 6-Feb-97 Build ELF support into OF m.. James
Milne%mail.cyberex@localhost (321*)


> Would it be possible for us to write ELF support into PowerMac OF?
> It could be possible, the AIX binary compatibility is achieved through
> a package built into the ROMS, is it not?

Actually it is mostly done (famous last words :-).  What you need to do
is hack the boot.ppc image into submission so that it is of a format
that that the PowerMac can understand.

Possible methods include:

        o       building boot.ppc using tools that generate
                the correct binary format.

        o       post processing the ELF boot.ppc image
                into a Mac compatible format.

For the latter the GNU binutils objcopy program may help, although a
small c-program may prove quicker and simpler :-).  I would first have a
look at what MkLinux is doing. They will have solved exactly this
problem.

        enjoy,
                Andrew