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Re: More MIPS testsuite fixes
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 13:29 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:43:16AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > Hmm, since we are talking mips failures, I also test mips-ecoff:
> > > >
> > > > $ grep FAIL check.log0 | wc -l
> > > > 318
> > > >
> > > > How about someone in the mips camp fixing them, or deprecate the target?
> >
> > A while ago most of those were ELF-only testcases which are erraneously
> > run for mips-ecoff.
> >
> > > We'd been talking about deprecating it. I don't remember the result of
> > > the discussion.
> >
> > It is still in use for bootloader related stuff on Linux and NetBSD.
>
> That can't be resolved by using ELF and objcopy? That's where the
> discussion got stalled last time IIRC.
>
I talked to some of the NetBSD guys yesterday. They believe that they
have their own elf to ecoff converter and don't need it, but I sent mail
to their toolchain list for verification. I'll take silence of a couple
of days as assent. :)
-eric