Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2] ld: don't hardcode "-melf_i386"

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 01:50:29PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 14:48 +0200, Idwer Vollering wrote:
> > 2014-04-16 9:14 GMT+02:00 Roger Pau Monne :
> > > On FreeBSD, the name of the emulation is "-melf_i386_fbsd", so allow
> > > SeaBIOS to fetch the emulation to use from the environment variables.
> > >
> > > This allows SeaBIOS to compile on FreeBSD with gcc.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné
> >
> > Acked-by: Idwer Vollering
> >
> > With the note that one needs to use ld from ports' binutils, not the shipped ld:
>
> Which according to your debug output supports -melf_i386, so why this
> patch in that case?

FYI, I didn't see a response on this question, so I've held off on
applying this patch.

-Kevin