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- Erik Troan writes:
- > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997 rmk92@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
- >
- > > Would you be interested in patches for the ARM port of Linux? I currently have
- > > (out of a mixture of 3.0.3, 4.0, and 4.1) the following patches. I am working
- > > on some of 4.2 now. Anyway, here is a list of packages that have patches of one
- > > sort or another.
- >
- > Good grief.
- >
- > > Please note that at the moment, ELF is not supported on the ARM platforms due to
- > > a lack of standard (and time to work out how to do ELF). That's not to say that
- > > it won't happen - it has to happen some time.
- >
- > I'm not that interested in them until ELF is supported, the diffs would
- > be too difficult to integrate w/o shared libs.
-
- Anyone want to work on a proper ELF standard for ARM Linux? (One that is the full
- works - shared libraries etc). This will of course require GCC and binutils changes.
-
- This is extremely urgent - the later kernels have been 'designed' for ELF, and so
- have most of the libraries. RH 4.2 is as well.
-
- Anyone wanting to work on ELF, please email me.
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