Hello! binutils/bfd recently removed a.out and COFF support for sparc [1].
Unfortunately, this means that we are no longer able to built GRUB or SILO for sparc/sparc64 which need to be built as a.out binaries as the Open Boot Firmware requires them to be in a.out format [2]. I would therefore like to ask to start a discussion about a potential reversal of this commit as I don't think we can forgo being able to build a bootloader on sparc/sparc64. Also, since m68k is still very actively maintained (there is even LLVM support in the works now) and since AmigaOS uses COFF, I would to ask for the a.out and COFF support for m68k to be reinstated as well [3]. Thanks, Adrian > [1] > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c9098af41e3246586a30f4f0bdb0ee4367e9a5e7 > [2] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19457-01/801-7042/801-7042.pdf > [3] > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=dc12032bca08554cf0a72d224e44f755f7789ff3 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
