From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Toshi Morita <tm2@best.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: elf32-hppa questions
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <199906180708.AAA07672@shell14.ba.best.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q2/msg00282.html

I understand that elf32-hppa has problems, and it usage is deprecated,
and etc, but I have but one question...

Does it work well enough that it should be able to build a Linux kernel?

I understand that a large number of relocations specified by the HP 
standard ELF document are not supported. However, compatibility with
HP-generated object files is (obviously) not necessary to build a working
kernel.

All that's really necessary is for binutils to write object files
which it can later read to produce a valid absolute ELF file.
The actual format of the object files isn't important as long as 
the BFD can read and write them well enough to produce a correct
final absolute ELF file.

Does binutils for the elf32-hppa work correctly enough to do this?

Toshi