On 08/08/18 15:20, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Again, I understand the problem, it's not the first time I am having >> such a discussion. There was a similar one regarding POWER5 support >> in Golang [1] and the SPE backend in gcc [2]. >> >> The problem is just that we are talking about code here that people >> are actively using so I'm not sure what the alternatives are. > > I only see two alternatives: > > 1. Someone has enough interest to step up and maintain the code; > 2. Use an older version of binutils. >
3. Use a post-link conversion tool to generate an a.out image from the ELF binary. > I think option (2) is a good option. It might mean that your host > system doesn't have that option out of the box, but you can still > build an older version of binutils separately. We do this all > the time so as to avoid depending on the host distribution to > determine what version of binutils we use. > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel