[geeks] Standalone Exectuable Formats

[Jochen Kunz]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:22:52 -0500 (CDT)
"Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:

> Do any of you have documentation on the executable format
> that OpenBoot is expecting
Don't know about SPARCs, but PPC OFW machines can load regular ELF
images via "boot net".
Hmmm?
$ file /tftpboot/ofwboot.* /tftpboot/boot.net.sparc
/tftpboot/ofwboot.elf:    ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500,
version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/tftpboot/ofwboot.sparc:  ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC32PLUS, V8+
Required, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
/tftpboot/boot.net.sparc: sparc executable
So at least newer SPARC (sun4m?) OFW can load ELF too.
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       Jochen

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