Hector Oron <[email protected]> writes: > 2010/4/27 Russ Allbery <[email protected]>:
>> I have a hard time imagining Debian ever supporting non-ELF >> targets. We'd need to maintain a completely separate libc, for >> instance, since I'm fairly sure glibc is ELF only. > uClibc is on the archive (not usable for runtime), it was also added > to dpkg as a new architecture, maybe someday we'll have a uClibc (w/ > MMU and w/o MMU). I'm fairly sure that uClibc is ELF. > We might need to support flat binaries for that. I'm not sure what you mean by "flat binaries" here. ELF versus non-ELF is a much more fundamental distinction than, say, whether or not something is dynamically linked. I don't believe the Linux kernel will even run non-ELF binaries without special module support. > There are also some teams and individuals which have the desire to > work on mobile world having Debian on them, for such purposes and > maybe not officially, there is space for a bionic libc or some others > that might be suitable for such purposes. I see no reason why embedded platforms can't use ELF. ELF is very common in the embedded world even entirely apart from Linux. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
