From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <ok...@enbug.org> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:23:23 +0900
> On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:08:31 David Miller wrote: >> This patch allows a platform to specify the image file output >> format, it also adds the --strip-unneeded option to the objcopy >> invocation as well. > > IIRC, --strip-unneeded was dangerous. I would like to have information about this :-) We do want to retain symbols (and potentially even debugging information) in the foo.exec files. But the final images are pure binary blobs and there is no real use for any of the symbol information. In fact, the the way i386 uses this, it outputs "binary" format images. I can't even think of where it would place any symbol tables :-) On sparc64 this will actually matter, because we need to use a.out format images for the boot blocks. If I leave the symbols in there, this brings the boot block over it's required 512-byte size. >> I've left the i386-pc.mk portion of this patch out of the posting, >> but rest assured I will check that part in once this gets an ACK :-) > > I don't like "IMG_FMT". How about "FORMAT"? If too ambiguous, "IMAGE_FORMAT". > I prefer not to use uncommon abbrevs. That's fine with me, I'll update the patch once the strip issue is resolved. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
