From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1fnRwx-0002Uc-FE for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:08:43 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49699) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnRwu-0002UA-UN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:08:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnRwu-0003bl-3f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:08:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::230]:42565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnRwt-0003bS-UB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:08:40 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-x230.google.com with SMTP id w7-v6so3152919uan.9 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:08:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=ER3wMlXyPRJs6qFxTUsCJi+IWclO9qAd4bNSreLe+wU=; b=RVuhDkAYDtZIq2XtjRwGCLZ0gGG1STfYKdBYgSmJWM2TGhMjlhC/tM0gpCgwJvqw/L e8pjR6GYyYt7kFxXv8AOPhEF5dND6jbHXmT2D5epRx7IfsW7L6vtUddawxufMaLnjC66 MxHkYwbD2yDOA3+w/+GuQ+ePrW6J0W+6CAizeSxqCgLSl/dwizNBgY8wqtInqflwA51/ hR/h4VLAhNAwgD23gUmazOmFpO/hqrxGcvRxCtDpR9FCCdUTX+quPbtZFy7g0UMke8gA Kkk5QR5JMGIIDF2PSKxyWR3mTPRChmzMYP77HptPVkxyv9VcRRsDCSImKKKKEwlRfSyU bQCA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=ER3wMlXyPRJs6qFxTUsCJi+IWclO9qAd4bNSreLe+wU=; b=hWdGOmAAx4eyDU+gKdaqPTE500RnlukCLbk06qJXdQh0UnIlwG/NQUUBq7M2Lt3+GQ zKL0Ct/AEW60QdfnVKuVmcPX1cOoUOJ5qNkeKq8F4Oos4lvanWMDzINy1bnLNuISFvwB LCuWrwmdk+nqXQnIKNEXfKopLlI+67Ascovs+PHKKZcob7DzGtcwXG7o7WBLJcCVjgw2 OydYXZQlDwzQUHfADZU1+1W4EmAlWqzTdkh7Q2GVABr4RQfhvcfDQ/9qPag5L6onhDSk bhIVWhvX+h5fRiFk+pYlLWrGYZ/oR60qiaUaoP3c0769V4tG9XWj5Q4wHOARQwO6EIjv NU9A== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlGTLbZO7WosTdPVh7CllKmsqNgjNFV1tzuceR32orH5SN5X7Gq+ wkR8uGXSekrkQy/THq0Liwhd13HxVOLGIlAorXA= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA+uWPzvyAxLZadHjSC1Ui3UjbtLdadv9lWHxtEA++P31f7PdrtYUW1LT2VKR/I5ckpdMWcPrd3aZTH7VkJZUB1ZPUU= X-Received: by 2002:a9f:320e:: with SMTP id x14-v6mr2797540uad.89.1533748119352; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:08:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a67:364d:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2018 10:08:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <91ae25c5-4af2-575f-b167-7e46027de7df@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de> <27449274-9250-97a3-1ff9-8b9c818659d4@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20180808015529.GP26457@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20180808131659.GA1544@bubble.grove.modra.org> <643f686e-d568-978d-07ab-31a62336966f@physik.fu-berlin.de> <91ae25c5-4af2-575f-b167-7e46027de7df@physik.fu-berlin.de> From: Cary Coutant Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 10:08:38 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Alan Modra , Binutils , The development of GNU GRUB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c08::230 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: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:08:42 -0000 >> Why isn't *what* done on gold? Gold is ELF-only and doesn't use BFD. > > Development of new features. I know that Gold is ELF-only that's why > I was wondering why BFD isn't just kept in maintenance mode. Gold supports only a small fraction of the platforms that BFD does, and many of those platforms don't use ELF. In addition, almost all of the other binutils tools use BFD. BFD is far from being relegated to maintenance mode. -cary