Subject: Re: Non "new-toolchain" platforms
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 01/28/2002 08:55:37
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:01:19AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> One issue that has arisen, currently cats support both the Cats board by
> simtec, and (although I've not tried as I've not got one) the EBSA board from
> Intel. I'm not quite sure where this leaves us if simtec do allow the cats
> board to boot from ELF kernels. I have emailed simtec again though.
Which firmware does the EBSA-285 board use? RedBoot? If so, it'll load
S-Records, too.
> Note if this doesn't work is it possible to get gcc to output a.out files, by
> using a switch? Or would we be better looking at having a kernel compile
> package?
No, you'd have to have a separately targeted GCC.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>