On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:50 AM Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org> wrote: > > Hi Luke, > > On Sun, 2019-01-20 at 16:42 +0000, Luke Diamand wrote: > > I was hoping to use elfutils on some MIPS core files. So I was > > wondering what the status is? > > > > There is a patch in Debian (apparently originally from RedHat?) here: > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/elfutils/0.175-2/debian/patches/mips_backend.diff/ > > > > That's not in the mainline code though, and also lacks unwind support > > (?). > > > > I also have a small patch needed to pick up the shared library > > process map - instead of using DT_DEBUG, MIPS targets use > > DT_MIPS_RLD_MAP in core files. > > The status of that port is somewhat unclear. > Although the files state they are copyrighted Red Hat, I believe that > is wrong. They might be derived from some other backend which was. But > I think the original authors have disappeared. > > The other problem has been that we don't seem to have anybody with MIPS > experience/setups that can help test/integrate the port. > > Also, in the past the port made changes to the generic libelf code that > caused bugs on other architectures: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794488 > Which made me somewhat suspicious about this backend. > > Best would be to discuss with the Debian maintainer, Kurt Roeckx < > k...@roeckx.be>, how to move this forward/upstream. > > Thanks, > > Mark
( + Kurt ) I am interesting in knowing the state of the MIPS port as well. What are the plans for upstreaming this ? Thanks
