Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:29:57 +0000
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binutils and the Linux kernel source finder
Message-ID: <20020106132957.GE22105@gallifrey>
In-Reply-To: <20020105180237.GF485@gallifrey> <20020106023953.GA1728@codepoet.org>
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* Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org) wrote:

> Note that uClinux (not ucLinux as on your page) does not natively

Oops - fixed that.

> run the ELF binary file format, but uses what is called the
> "Flat" binary format.  It is structurally much simpler (and
> therefore smaller) then ELF, but more importantly, this format
> helps us avoid needing to always use PIC and/or do tons of
> relocations.

OK.

> The uClinux toolchains for ARM and m68k (which are the two most
> commonly used architectures) are available from 
>     http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/m68k-elf-tools/

OK, I've added that - it could be said that a page entitled
'm68k-elf-tools' is perhaps not the obvious place to find stuff for m68k
and ARM that specifically produces something other than ELF :-)

> 
> Links to toolchains for other arches and _lots_ of help
> information can be found at 
>     http://home.at/uclinux/

Also added - but it breaks Javascript on Mozilla for me, and the menu
doesn't appear at all in Konqueror for me. It also doesn't have a
non-Javascript version - making it useless in simpler browsers.
It does however have a very nice penguin.

Dave

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