Hi Rick! I’m aware that the elftoaout utility exists, this isn’t really my concern though.
I’m concerned about an upstream solution, preferably with an elftoaout utility being part of the upstream sources. Adrian > On Aug 20, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Rick Leir <rl...@leirtech.com> wrote: > > Hi Gregor, Adrian > I don't know if this is helpful, but Ubuntu Launchpad has a ppa package for > elftoaout which has been built recently. > > https://launchpad.net/~likemartinma/+archive/ubuntu/elftoaout > Cheers -- Rick > >> On August 10, 2018 8:12:47 PM ADT, Gregor Riepl <onit...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> We could modify sparc-utils maybe that it builds on the release >>>>> architectures similar to what the hppa porters do with their palo >>>>> package. >>>> >>>> I'll have a look. It doesn't look like this package would only build/work >>>> on >>>> sparc. Usefulness is a different matter - but that's probably outside the >>>> scope of acceptance criteria? >>> >>> Correct. Usefulness doesn't matter. Maybe there is another package or >>> upstream project that offers an elftoaout tool? >> >> So for now, I manually modified the boot image build step to strip with >> objcopy first, then convert with elftoaout from sparc-utils. >> >> The resulting boot.img is identical to the one installed by >> grub-ieee1275-bin_2.02+dfsg1-4 - that looks promising! >> This means we have at least a method to build the boot code without a.out >> support in objcopy. I also looked into making OpenBoot run the ELF binary >> directly, but that seems impossible for an unexpected reason: boot.img is >> written directly into the boot sector of the /boot partition, and there is >> simply not enough space to accommodate the ELF binary. It's 816 bytes, while >> the a.out is exactly 512. >> >> I'll discuss integrating the change with the grub2 package maintainer and >> upstream, if that's ok for you. And I'll take a look at the sparc-utils >> package, maybe making it build for any instead of just sparc64 (as >> discussed). >> > > -- > Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
