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 < k...@roeckx.be>, how to move this forward/upstream. Thanks, Mark
