In message <199902231115.WAA23216@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>,
Simon Burge writes:

>On the pmax, we still have some stuff that is a.out (kernels, some
>bootblock intermediate stages), but binutils only knows of ELF and
>ECOFF.  I tried adding "aout_big_vec aout_little_vec" to the SELECT_VECS
>for mips, but the compile blew up (I've forgotten the exact failure).
>
>Is there anything else that needs to be done to make mips bfd a.out
>aware?

Hi simon,

The right answer is to eliminate all uses of a.out.
AFAIK there are  only three vestiges:
	a) pmax scsi bootblocks.  Fix: bootlodaer that reads
	   ECOFF or ELF (or both).
	b) old gprof which groks the  netbsd (network byteorder)
	   a.out we before 1.1.  Fix: port mips-specific
	   code from Berkeley gprof.
	c) intermediate form for building bootblock code.
	   Fix: rework mkboot.c to read in ELF (or ECOFF).

Sound like a plan? It'd be nice to get a) done for 1.4, so we can ship
a single ECOFF kernel that works for both netboot and scsiboot.