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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/elf2aout elf2aout.c
From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 00:58, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
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> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:08:16PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> [...]
> > elf2aout will also be needed on ARM and maybe PowerPC.

[snip]

PowerPC will actually need elf2xcoff more than elf2aout.  "Old World"
(ie beige box) Macintoshes all have OpenFirmware versions below 3.0
which only support loading XCOFF binaries.  As of 3.0, OpenFirmware
supported both XCOFF and ELF.

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Benno Rice
benno@FreeBSD.org

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