From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Oct 13 15:05:16 2008 Message-ID: <48F39A02.3020407@freesbee.fr> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:57:06 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Rivi=E8re?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] distro cross-building References: <200810110019.01757.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <48EFD0D0.3040707@atari-source.org> <200810112257.48424.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <48F1B5F6.20607@freesbee.fr> <48F2C5E3.6050900@atari-source.org> <48F35852.8070209@atari-source.org> <1223908408.13924.111.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <48F3693D.6080305@atari-source.org> <108B193C-2608-47EB-93AD-028FB91E511C@bassment.nu> <1223918481.13924.134.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1223918481.13924.134.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id m9DJ5Grg007715 Alan Hourihane wrote: > Additionally, adding ELF is no small feat. So unless someone is going to > stump up a fair bit of time it ain't gonna happen. Moreover, I'm not sure it is even possible to support ELF executables and dynamic libraries without virtual memory... Standard ELF executables doesn't contain any relocation table because it is useless with VM: the executable is always loaded at the same address in the VM. However, maybe there are extensions to ELF for VMless OSes ? -- Vincent Rivière