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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:47:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EAE534.5030900@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070914060805.GA32169@uranus.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:44:13PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> It was originally there to put ELF notes into the vdso objects.  I'm
>> using it to create notes in vmlinux for Xen, and apparently people are
>> using it to put other metadata into their kernel images.
>>     
> From a post on arm-kernel:
>
>   
>> With build-id binutils (e.g. the latest bintuils 2.18), objcopy produces
>> a 3.1 Gbytes Image file.
>>     
>
> This seems outright silly.
> Either we should revert the notes changes or someone caring about it 
> should sweep all archs and make sure it does not hurt there.

Hm, sounds like yet another binutils bug; unfortunately common when ELF
notes are about.  Was there any further effort to isolate what was
causing the problem?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 15:00 [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version Bernhard Walle
2007-09-06 10:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-13 21:42   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 21:56     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14  7:52       ` Bernhard Walle
2007-09-14 20:00         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-13 22:13     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-13 22:44       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14  6:08         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 19:47           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-09-14 21:07             ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 21:15               ` Roland McGrath
2007-09-14 21:31               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-15  1:30                 ` Roland McGrath

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