svn commit: r46559 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Wed Apr 15 04:48:09 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Wed Apr 15 04:48:07 2015
New Revision: 46559
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46559

Log:
  Add ELF Tool Chain report
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, implicit)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Wed Apr 15 04:30:06 2015	(r46558)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Wed Apr 15 04:48:07 2015	(r46559)
@@ -2214,4 +2214,78 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
 
     <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>Migration to ELF Tool Chain tools</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ed</given>
+	  <common>Maste</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>emaste at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://elftoolchain.sourceforge.net">&os; LLDB wiki page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The ELF Tool Chain project provides BSD-licensed
+	implementations of compilation tools and libraries for building
+	and analyzing ELF objects.  The project began as part of &os;
+	but later became an independent project to encourage wider
+	participation from others in the open-source developer
+	community.</p>
+
+      <p>ELF Tool Chain provides a set of tools equivalent to the
+	GNU Binutils suite.  This project's goal is to import these
+	tools into the &os; base system so that we have a set of
+	up-to-date and maintained tools that also provide support for
+	new CPU architectures of interest, such as arm64.</p>
+
+      <p>In addition to the libelf and libdwarf libraries, the
+	following tools are now provided by the ELF tool chain
+	project:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>addr2line</li>
+	<li>nm</li>
+	<li>readelf</li>
+	<li>size</li>
+	<li>strings</li>
+	<li>strip (elfcopy)</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>ELF Tool Chain's elfcopy provides equivalent
+	functionality to Binutils' objcopy, and accepts the same
+	command-line arguments.  For it to be a viable replacement for
+	all uses of objcopy in the base system, it must gain support for
+	writing portable exectuable (PE) format binaries, which are used
+	by UEFI boot code.</p>
+
+      <p>The ELF Tool Chain project does not currently provide
+	replacements for as, ld, or objdump.  For &os;, these tools will
+	likely be obtained from the LLVM project.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Add missing functionality to elfcopy and migrate the base
+	  system build.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Fix issues found by fuzzing inputs to the tools.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add automatic support for separate debug files.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
