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From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org,
	The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 15:07:31 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1808081506590.30508@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d2f1c2a-1715-1348-c35a-ad562a3acbb2@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1].
> 
> Unfortunately, this means that we are no longer able to built GRUB or 
> SILO for sparc/sparc64 which need to be built as a.out binaries as the 
> Open Boot Firmware requires them to be in a.out format [2].

Link as ELF and use elftoaout to convert to a.out.


Ciao,
Michael.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-08 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-07 10:51 Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-07 12:58 ` Gunther Nikl
2018-08-07 15:04 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2018-08-07 15:16   ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-07 15:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08  1:55   ` Alan Modra
2018-08-08  9:07     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 13:16       ` Alan Modra
2018-08-08 13:45         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 13:54           ` Joel Brobecker
2018-08-08 14:03             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 14:20               ` Joel Brobecker
2018-08-08 15:15                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-08-08 14:39           ` Cary Coutant
2018-08-08 14:41             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 17:08               ` Cary Coutant
2018-08-08 18:11                 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 18:25                   ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-08 18:27                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-08-08 18:30                     ` Paul Koning
2018-08-08 21:26                       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 21:23                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 21:27                       ` Paul Koning
2018-08-08 21:35                         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 21:53                           ` Joel Brobecker
2018-08-09  0:03                           ` Paul Koning
2018-08-09  3:43                             ` Jeff Law
2018-08-08 21:32                       ` Andrew Pinski
2018-08-09 12:34                   ` Michael Matz
2018-08-08 10:59     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-08-08 13:34       ` Alan Modra
2018-08-08 18:14         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-08-10  9:57           ` Jose E. Marchesi
2018-08-10 10:12             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-08-08 15:07 ` Michael Matz [this message]

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