Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils?

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:55 -0500, Evan Langlois wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:38 +0200, Philipp Donzé wrote:
> 
> > No I'm not sure. I'm not that experienced with these Unix binary formats. 
> > Its hard to find a good explanation for these on the web. All I know comes 
> > from sources on the web. I.e. at 
> > http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/exotica.html it's written that 
> > uClinux on coldfire processor uses relocation table in the flat binary.
> > Also you can read at http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=elf 
> > about "relocation section". So I think ELF doesn't forget about this 
> > information.
> > Perhaps there are numerous different ELF variants? (Linux, FreeBSD, Sun,...)
> 
> Just be careful about comparing what runs on the Coldfire, since the
> newer coldfire CPUs do have an MMU, and so they can run a full Linux
> now.
> 
> I beleive that uCLinux has grown to actually support the use of an MMU
> on some platforms now, and if that is the case the line between Linux
> 2.6 and uCLinux is very blurred.

Only in that sense.  uClinux is still very much so smaller.

Thanks,
Mark