Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-13T22:44:18Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I would rather see allt this ELFNOTE stuff reverted.
> It causes troubles for several archs and is at the moment
> being discussed at arm-kernel for example.
>
> Having it reverted and then applied when it is ready for all archs would
> be preferred.
>

What problems does it cause on other archs? It should be
cross-architecture.

> On top of this I never understood the actual purpose of it...

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.

J