Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:47:00 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version |
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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?
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