From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30658 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2019 00:20:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact elfutils-devel-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: elfutils-devel-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 30646 invoked by uid 89); 11 Oct 2019 00:20:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Checked: by ClamAV 0.100.3 on sourceware.org X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-HELO: mail-lf1-f50.google.com Received: from mail-lf1-f50.google.com (HELO mail-lf1-f50.google.com) (209.85.167.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:20:50 +0000 Received: by mail-lf1-f50.google.com with SMTP id 72so5716767lfh.6 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:20:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=0Xu5T7wF5o1TjDYvwPusCYU7WPVfFPUAV/nFpQqACeU=; b=B4YQN/2aNIuAXPF08BrYYWFC0KgsR+mnvVbi/N9T0ZKcQaNZ17/Upe211GGE9vLHCU FTSm5HxRX2OveSKVyYR6pv8lwsNMGFz6CTqC9Q4XIpDCfiUWcY/LqClRYWIisZOM63dN B0SKD5geIgBaOl1XbcTI5lWXjuNJeYkc3hfgYdbrYcVbdsgEbHmcpEvmPhLaxdbEF3em DME0DsJUCpkyc7zwc4ooNjTenv7fBfGOcuf5kFHyda3PxG2yN6niYSQRCfN22q5zfxP8 fj5of+iQs1YKzxJq1ChoUakYHpPAT9JPbaRM1YiicuZSNVYKae1iE7SzVJKdwWM77S0c 59WQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=0Xu5T7wF5o1TjDYvwPusCYU7WPVfFPUAV/nFpQqACeU=; b=Ra5AyOOhOHrITLQOOdGcVAhra3Abm7at7XlHjZdzydeUwVJDHXbnTCFsoxYrCbEzV8 tAFvaXB+1WFYC0bLyeaCG9dFOTHu2m9mR5wMJc4J3T67AS8MUb1sPSZWiVRjlZ2d4gNF tGejbZ1X/VlpaEeBsy2TH9VwJoetNqttH+Ngx+B9gYNRAwgrHMCm7mkYlWIGudynrLsK pHy8Ki+qjv0Dd6jzgiZNvqruWZanOFIE+zOHtphc7TqddSVjgJeQTFQno9YuyJVx37QN jtcyKqEO0egBeSKsk9WxLxbFoZAitNAaE/Y3ukD5V3IkzvvHowgL2bIxttm29eE/7pn3 ruMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAX9zmrtsnfnWTFiYwwb7TwOccunDD29mXHwhf64UKDZKBH7cKc/ 3RFVOOo0AYGxVQBDTFdZSgmWP/YNJrvZFlVxem5fsOdD X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxGfTjgeluAuOgACNEDiB5NMLoVWo5N55UvT6wMPwD3QQkylG4Ib6KI7aKy6+e/h5B5gNmIc3pQU+/VJHnFysY= X-Received: by 2002:ac2:5629:: with SMTP id b9mr7855655lff.32.1570753247964; Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:20:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2b0fb9e94118c740ad22e9baeb4b142b7bbd22b7.camel@klomp.org> In-Reply-To: <2b0fb9e94118c740ad22e9baeb4b142b7bbd22b7.camel@klomp.org> From: Indu Bhagat Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: MIPS Elfutils support? To: Mark Wielaard , Kurt Roeckx Cc: Luke Diamand , "elfutils-devel@sourceware.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-q4/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:50 AM Mark Wielaard 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 < > kurt@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