by I'm assuming that in the 1.3.x that somewhere down the line Linus will
directly support ELF without extra patches.
Am I correct? (Oh I hope. =-)
: Hi,
: This is a new ELF patch, 1.2.9.elf, for Linux 1.2.9. It makes Linux
: 1.2.9 compatible with both ELF and a.out formats. You need modules
: 1.2.8 or newer to use module in ELF.
: You can edit arch/i386/Makefile to choose which binary format you want
: to compile the Linux kernel in. I only tested it on my machine.
: I also added the kernel ELF core dump, which is taken from the
: there may be an ELF bug somewhere:
: --foo.c--
: #include <stdio.h>
: main ()
: {
: const char * const sd1 = "1.8976931348623157e+308";
: *sd1 = 1;
: }
: ----
: Before 1.2.9.elf, I couldn't get it core dump under ELF if I used
: -static. This bug has been fixed in 1.2.9.elf.
: You also need a gdb patch to read the ELF core dump. There are two
: gdb patches: one for shared library and the other for ELF core.
: We need someone to put two together. I can put it on tsx-11 and
: sunsite. Drop me a line if you can help out. Thanks.
: This patch needs the following packages from me:
: 1. binutils 2.5.2l.17 or newer.
: 2. libc 5.0.9.
: 3. gcc 2.6.3/ELF.
: The primary ftp sites for the compiler/C library are tsx-11.mit.edu
: under pub/linux/packages/GCC and sunsite.unc.edu under pub/Linux/GCC.
: After applying the patch, you can compile the kernel in ELF:
: # cd linux
: # gzip -dc ...../linux-1.2.9.elf.diff.gz | patch -p2
: # make zImage
: The resulting arch/i386/boot/zImage is compiled in ELF.
: After editing arch/i386/Makefile, you can compile the kernel in a.out.
: H.J.
: 06/06/95