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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:47:00 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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       Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
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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?

    J
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