Re: [PATCH] ieee1275: Include a.out header in assembly of sparc64 boot loader

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 3/25/19 6:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I am not done testing yet but I just realized, 544 = 512 + 32, so it looks
> like the a.out header is appended twice. Does an older binutils maybe default
> to a.out when just passing binary as the output format?

Just did another test build, the sizes are correct for me:

address@hidden:~/grub/grub-core$ ls -l *img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz glaubitz   512 Mar 25 19:02 boot.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz glaubitz   512 Mar 25 19:02 cdboot.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz glaubitz   512 Mar 25 19:02 diskboot.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 glaubitz glaubitz 85888 Mar 25 19:02 kernel.img
address@hidden:~/grub/grub-core$

I will try it with an older version of binutils then and see what happens.

Will take a little longer as I also need to downgrade gcc and related
libraries as gcc-8 pulls in the newer binutils.

Adrian

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