Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:48:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46559 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504150448.t3F4m8NR023662@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Wed Apr 15 04:48:07 2015 New Revision: 46559 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46559 Log: Add ELF Tool Chain report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 04:30:06 2015 (r46558) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Wed Apr 15 04:48:07 2015 (r46559) @@ -2214,4 +2214,78 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='bin'> + <title>Migration to ELF Tool Chain tools</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Ed</given> + <common>Maste</common> + </name> + <email>emaste@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://elftoolchain.sourceforge.net">&os; LLDB wiki page</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The ELF Tool Chain project provides BSD-licensed + implementations of compilation tools and libraries for building + and analyzing ELF objects. The project began as part of &os; + but later became an independent project to encourage wider + participation from others in the open-source developer + community.</p> + + <p>ELF Tool Chain provides a set of tools equivalent to the + GNU Binutils suite. This project's goal is to import these + tools into the &os; base system so that we have a set of + up-to-date and maintained tools that also provide support for + new CPU architectures of interest, such as arm64.</p> + + <p>In addition to the libelf and libdwarf libraries, the + following tools are now provided by the ELF tool chain + project:</p> + + <ul> + <li>addr2line</li> + <li>nm</li> + <li>readelf</li> + <li>size</li> + <li>strings</li> + <li>strip (elfcopy)</li> + </ul> + + <p>ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy provides equivalent + functionality to Binutils' objcopy, and accepts the same + command-line arguments. For it to be a viable replacement for + all uses of objcopy in the base system, it must gain support for + writing portable exectuable (PE) format binaries, which are used + by UEFI boot code.</p> + + <p>The ELF Tool Chain project does not currently provide + replacements for as, ld, or objdump. For &os;, these tools will + likely be obtained from the LLVM project.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Add missing functionality to elfcopy and migrate the base + system build.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Fix issues found by fuzzing inputs to the tools.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add automatic support for separate debug files.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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