From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1fn4M6-0005pF-Ls for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:57:06 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4M4-0005nh-Hg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:57:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4M0-0006uR-JT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:57:04 -0400 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:55693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fn4M0-0006tX-BX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:57:00 -0400 Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.85) with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (envelope-from ) id <1fn4Ly-000W3Z-5s>; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:56:58 +0200 Received: from z92e7.pia.fu-berlin.de ([87.77.146.231] helo=[10.146.231.3]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.85) with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (envelope-from ) id <1fn4Lx-0018kr-Us>; Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:56:58 +0200 Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz To: binutils@sourceware.org Cc: The development of GNU GRUB References: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <27449274-9250-97a3-1ff9-8b9c818659d4@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 17:56:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 87.77.146.231 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 130.133.4.66 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:57:05 -0000 On 08/07/2018 12:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1]. I just noticed that COFF/a.out support for MIPS was removed as well and shortly after restored since it seems that GRUB also needs COFF/a.out support on MIPS. So, can we have COFF/a.out support back, at least for sparc*? Thanks, Adrian > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=8e415ce8fee234cd86f29d8f4ebbbdf0f9c0b031 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913