From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1fnV9t-0000it-A1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 16:34:17 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnTEf-0003DJ-HR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:31:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnTEc-0006D2-DD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:31:05 -0400 Received: from resqmta-po-12v.sys.comcast.net ([2001:558:fe16:19:96:114:154:171]:39124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fnTEc-0006CV-6N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:31:02 -0400 Received: from resomta-po-16v.sys.comcast.net ([96.114.154.240]) by resqmta-po-12v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTP id nPgYfR7C46MIgnTEafsJk2; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 18:31:00 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20161114; t=1533753060; bh=u+zdK+s742KGjMAZ4jco5pYR00A9Ib2Ye+LRduP7xts=; h=Received:Received:Content-Type:Mime-Version:Subject:From:Date: Message-Id:To; b=MNBPaDb7AlJvZpYt8NlJBfoT7/zUVwqAvNCdYib3QWGKsD6nGUXHxoA6ZQZH7CDXh JvMaAqs6koAtJ7jhrysoIPkMbj9/QwN/wEys7Trjzv5l8mKA/di+E6zRwxYGaLL3NU KHMA9/iR+Bn1QhVMqSeiT5w4t+VzeL4zdPH92rkcdfoYKbKnVxX69m2mX5TZTacz5z awhAmLA7Gz8gYXROHzF8kyVfU12CbuwiLDr6GebNs6p9z5GaXThRGijHB/oba75sl2 GUqpk390YOnwow1Lwz4hGU8KUdHB+VI0mJdnaBxU2Rr8Ta1rYavNf649rhEEnPSNE1 GLFkoWfSAbG/g== Received: from [192.168.10.125] ([73.60.223.101]) by resomta-po-16v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTPA id nTEYfApFcQbivnTEZfoZgN; Wed, 08 Aug 2018 18:31:00 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\)) Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc From: Paul Koning In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:30:57 -0400 Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Cary Coutant , Alan Modra , Binutils , The development of GNU GRUB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: 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> To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1) X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfDTsi18d/npJuffBrNkQHR6DD6bciuw/0BtRao30ZbjfJF9PJqLUQW9oTLCzkXhQ5SwxZBjDqGkRduueqsHemRkY4QsymQ07PaghIk3WWilmLdPRbZZf XWBXkt+1DQMruxh7vxbX/vZ+pL/BjJpkqwHdQRsHIyKHyON+A5sFnaiBYDRP7JfXudoLuuukRjWvUGSfuL35WwRGGQv5cgWFwYp009b2xc2pAEC2wnmwuj/8 xNP8xh6Uf7m3RWQy93bgHi/oR3bdFc3WTaxrtev5sWzPeEyr1YQLkjGz7mQuu3Ic+rOVu4hPQcNN833kVfaSFiUI5vumqCTLaFTbZMT1rnQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:558:fe16:19:96:114:154:171 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 16:34:16 -0400 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 18:31:06 -0000 > On Aug 8, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki = wrote: >=20 > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >=20 >>> Gold supports only a small fraction of the platforms that BFD does, >>=20 >> Which of the platforms that are still relevant for commercial = applications >> are supported by BFD which are not supported by Gold? >>=20 >> As far as I know, Gold support x86*, POWER*, ARM*, s390* and MIPS* = which >> covers all of the targets that distributions like Fedora, openSUSE = and >> Debian consider as supported release architectures. >=20 > We have dozens of bare metal targets which only have support in BFD. =20= > Some of these architectures happen to have Linux support too, for = embedded=20 > applications. All the world is not Linux.=20 Indeed. For example, NetBSD support 57 platforms (not quite that many = architectures, but a lot more than Linux). paul