From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21616 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2002 09:46:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21272 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2002 09:46:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dell-paw-2.cambridge.redhat.com) (195.224.55.226) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2002 09:46:55 -0000 Received: from north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com (host217-35-25-247.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.35.25.247]) by dell-paw-2.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C662F2B53B for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:46:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB78E1C34D; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:46:30 +0100 (BST) To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: binutils & Windows device drivers References: <3CA17B05.1020804@skynet.be> From: Nick Clifton Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3CA17B05.1020804@skynet.be> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00107.txt.bz2 Hi Laurent, > Could anyone tell me if binutils supports the PE-386 format used by > Windows device drivers (.sys) ? Sadly, it appears that this format is not supported. In fact it is not clear of the specification for this format is in the public domain. If it is a proprietary specification belonging to Microsoft, then it will not be possible to add code to binutils to handle this format. Cheers Nick