After our migration (of certain architectures) to lld the kernel is built
with a unique build-ID. Make it available via a sysctl and uname(1) to
allow the user to identify their running kernel.
Submitted by: Ali Mashtizadeh <ali_mashtizadeh.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Event: Waterloo Hackathon 2019
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20326
The linker script CONSTRUCTORS keyword is only meaningful "when linking
object file formats which do not support arbitrary sections, such as
ECOFF and XCOFF"[1] and is ignored for other object file formats.
LLVM's lld does not yet accept (and ignore) CONSTRUCTORS, so just remove
CONSTRUCTORS from the linker scripts as it has no effect.
[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Keywords.html
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7343
x86 CPU support, better support for powerpc64, some new directives, and
many other things. Bump __FreeBSD_version, and add a note to UPDATING.
Thanks to the many people that have helped to test this.
Obtained from: projects/binutils-2.17
just before the memory hole to 4 megs. Special case building exception.s
like locore.s, it needs to at the beginning so the branches out from the
trap table don't overflow.
