[PATCH] elf: Add declarations for BPF

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 06/07/2016 03:41 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 15:10 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 06/07/2016 02:07 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
>>> The e_machine value is provisionary, but will serve for now.
>>> I want to use this value in elfutils and systemtap.  I will
>>> also propagate the value to llvm and their bpf backend.
>>>
>>> The R_BPF_MAP_FD value is being used by llvm, although they are
>>> using the name R_X86_64_64, which is perhaps less than ideal.  ;-)
>>
>> Who defines the e_machine values these days?
> 
> Apparently it is still SCO (at least it was a year ago):
> http://moxielogic.org/blog/elf-machine-number.html
> " Just send a nice email requesting the number assignment to
> registry@sco.com and they'll increment their most recent number and add
> you to the list."
> 
> But it might be that it moved to registry@uxsglobal.com. That seems to
> be the last address used on the sysv-gabi mailinglist. If that also
> doesn't work, then best to ask on the sysv-gabi mailinglist itself
> generic-abi@googlegroups.com

How did we get a temporary value without knowing who to contact? :}

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Cheers,
Carlos.