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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:31:46 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand
Message-ID:  <3A96AC92.F14A90B9@cup.hp.com>
References:  <3A960EF8.75C3FC53@cup.hp.com> <20010223042641.B2539@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> The real fix is to teach the ELF image loader to read the .note.ABI-tag
> section.  Then statically linked Linux binaries would be correctly
> identified [since our branding scheme isn't accepted by anyone other than
> us].

The use of the section seems broken to me. It's the first time I've
heard of it (so I won't really know how it's used :-). AFAICT, ABI
information is written in e_ident[EI_OSABI] and annotated with flags in
e_flags. That should be enough for our ELF loader.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
  tel:  (408) 447-4222

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