On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 07:19:57AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Le 27/03/2019 à 19:21, Segher Boessenkool a écrit : > >Yeah, okay, we should have some PHDRS statement here still. You can drop > >the dummy segment, and the notes segment as well, or you can keep the notes > >section in both the notes and kernel segments. > > Is the note segment useful at all ? I guess if we decide to keep it, we > should have a reason.
I don't know if it is. $ readelf -x17 powerpc64/kernel/vmlinux Hex dump of section '.notes': 0xc0000000010d4128 00000004 00000014 00000003 474e5500 ............GNU. 0xc0000000010d4138 ba254e47 396b1745 176695d8 6b54c9e3 .%NG9k.E.f..kT.. 0xc0000000010d4148 959cedd7 00000006 00000001 00000100 ................ 0xc0000000010d4158 4c696e75 78000000 00000000 Linux....... Does that look useful? There's a build-id in there it seems. I don't know if any tools look at that, or how they find it. > >(You patch doesn't apply btw, whitespace damage I think; will you send a > >new one?) > > Originally the patch is by Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> > > I guess he will send a v2 taking into account the discussion ? Please do Joel :-) Thanks in advance, etc. > Or maybe you can send it yourself as you are probably the best person to > explain in details the change in the commit message. I have no way of testing things properly. Segher
