Subject: Re: building a netbootable kernel
To: Rafal Boni <rafal.boni@eDial.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/13/2002 11:12:43
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Rafal Boni wrote:
> If you look in the early archives of port-sgimips, I mailed around sources
> to a modified elf2ecoff which seems to DTRT; I don't have the sources to
> the in-tree elf2ecoff in front of me, but certainly an SGI won't boot LE
> kernels (even if the prom tells you it must be one of MIPSEL or MIPSEB,
> I belive it really *does* need to be MIPSEB).

Ops, I missed the byte order difference in file output. Sorry.
I'll have a look at the mailing list archives, and elf2ecoff sources.

> 
> Actually, I just looked at elf2ecoff, and it does unconditionally make LE
> COFF files, so that's at least part of your problem.
> 
> -> Or maybe can someone send me an ecoff kernel which supports SCSI on the 
> -> indy?
> 
> If you're not in a hurry, I can probably make you one at some point 
> tonight and either mail it to you or put it up somewhere were you can
> get to it.

Well, I still need a way to boot my own kernels after that :)
How do you folks build sgimips kernels these days ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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