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Re: [PATCH, v6] ieee1275: Include a.out header in assembly of sparc64 bo
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Eric Snowberg |
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Re: [PATCH, v6] ieee1275: Include a.out header in assembly of sparc64 boot loader |
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Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:45:02 -0600 |
> On Mar 26, 2019, at 3:47 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Recent versions of binutils dropped support for the a.out and COFF
> formats on sparc64 targets. Since the boot loader on sparc64 is
> supposed to be an a.out binary and the a.out header entries are
> rather simple to calculate in our case, we just write the header
> ourselves instead of relying on external tools to do that.
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> Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Eric Snowberg <address@hidden>