Re: FatELF patches...

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> Format (ANDF), such that, given a fat binary which does NOT support a
> given CPU, you could at least in theory process the ANDF section to
> create the needed target binary? Bonus points for being able to then
> append the newly created section to the file.

It's not a goal of mine, but I suppose you could have an ELF OSABI for it.

I don't think it changes the FatELF kernel patch at all. I don't know much 
about ANDF, but you'd probably just want to set the ELF "interpreter" to 
something other than ld.so and do this all in userspace, and maybe add a 
change to elf_check_arch() to approve ANDF binaries...or something.

To me, ANDF is interesting in an academic sense, but not enough to spend 
effort on it. YMMV.  :)

--ryan.


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