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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David E. O'Brien
457946d9bd Remove MAINTAINER lines. 2003-06-14 19:32:52 +00:00
Mark Murray
91bd71d206 Remove leaf node WARNS?=2 (that mainly I added). This should
help the GCC3 transition and CURRENT in general.
2002-02-08 22:31:43 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
b0b7095861 Quiet compiler warnings by making `WARNS 2' clean.
Submitted by:	Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>

Set maintainer to myself.  This needs to stay in sync with what Buntils
does, and it would be best to pass functionality changes thru me to make
sure future plans are taken into account.
2001-06-22 21:43:51 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
c815a20cb2 Change our ELF binary branding to something more acceptable to the Binutils
maintainers.

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.

With this set of changes, we will now create ELF binaries branded using
both "official" methods.  Due to the complexity of adding a section to a
binary, binaries branded with ``brandelf'' will only brand using the
EI_OSABI method.  Also due to the complexity of pulling a section out of an
ELF file vs. poking around in the ELF header, our image activator only
looks at the EI_OSABI header field.

Note that a new kernel can still properly load old binaries except for
Linux static binaries branded in our old method.

  *
  * For a short period of time, ``ld'' will also brand ELF binaries
  * using our old method.  This is so people can still use kernel.old
  * with a new world.  This support will be removed before 5.0-RELEASE,
  * and may not last anywhere upto the actual release.  My expiration
  * time for this is about 6mo.
  *
2000-04-18 02:39:26 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
fa146c5335 Tweaks to allow compiling -Wall (mostly adding "const" to char rcsid[]). 1998-12-06 22:58:23 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
b5b54135f4 Add a manpage for brandelf(1). Minor stylistic fixes, and a buffer
overrun fix, too.

Submitted by:	John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
1997-02-09 20:35:54 +00:00
Søren Schmidt
fcfc24ca7d Utility to "brand" ELF binaries.
Man page to come...
For now use: <brandelf -t Linux linuxbin> to brand, and just
<brandelf> to verify branding on a ELF file. FreeBSD native is
set with <brandelf -t FreeBSD freebsdbin>.
1996-10-16 18:16:22 +00:00