From owner-cvs-all Mon Apr 17 23:27:12 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7B837BC80; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA95540; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:26:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:26:51 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: "David E. O'Brien" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/binutils/bfd elf.c src/sys/sys elf_common.h imgact_elf.h src/sys/kern imgact_elf.c src/sys/i386/linux linux_sysvec.c src/sys/svr4 svr4_sysvec.c src/usr.bin/brandelf Makefile brandelf.1 brandelf.c ... Message-ID: <20000418082650.D95371@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <200004180239.TAA03852@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004180239.TAA03852@freefall.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 07:39:27PM -0700 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000418 04:40], David E. O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > After we established our branding method of writing upto 8 characters of > the OS name into the ELF header in the padding; the Binutils maintainers > and/or SCO (as USL) decided that instead the ELF header should grow two new > fields -- EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION. Each of these are an 8-bit unsigned > integer. SCO has assigned official values for the EI_OSABI field. In > addition to this, the Binutils maintainers and NetBSD decided that a better > ELF branding method was to include ABI information in a ".note" ELF > section. Got any references on this? Since I need to update elf(5) for this. Although I find it odd, since I have about every ELF document that is out there. Hmm, time to go through them again. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl Misery loves company... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message