Re: Pentium emulation

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
27 Jul 1997 21:28:31 GMT

Followup to: <m0wsJlJ-000024C@brando>
By author: "Kevin M. Bealer" <kmb203@psu.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I think this should be "fairly easy to do". If ld.so was modified to
> look for an "ELF" section named "sparc.text" or "i386.text" instead of
> "text" and likewise for the other (arch dependant) ELF subobjects.
>
> In the PPro case: look for "PPro.text" then "i586.text", then
> "i486.text", "i386.text" and finally "text".
>
> You would need to use a tool to strip the binary, but I don't see any
> other nasty ramifications.
>

No good. You need *every* section to be divided up this way, at least
to be possible, since the data section is likely to be different
(32/64-bit, endianness, different #ifdefs); furthermore, Alpha and
SPARC64 are using ELF64 and others ELF32. I think if anything an ar
archive (or similar) containing the appropriate ELF images might be in
order.

-hpa

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