What is the special swicth to use to create a ecoff type of executable. I
want to make sysinst program of type ecoff as that is format ARC BIOS on
Mips Recoginzes.

Is there any way I can include a flag into the make file to create the ecoff
type.

Prasad Nuli

-----Original Message-----
From: root@garbled.net [mailto:root@garbled.net]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 7:56 PM
To: Prasad V Nuli
Cc: tech-install@netbsd.org
Subject: RE: Sys Install Program



On 31-Jul-00 Prasad V Nuli wrote:
> In theory Alpha/ARC bios is same as MIPS/ARC and since SysInst is a
userland
> program it should be stable.

Actually.. I'm pretty sure you are wrong here.  Alpha has an ARC console..
which NetBSD doesn't support at all.  And I think mips/ARC and alpha/ARC are
totally unrelated.

However..  to port sysinst itself.. is not extremely difficult.  The bulk of
the work is in the arch dependant areas, and makeing sure you set up the
functions to properly prepare the disks and make them bootable.

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