06:57:05 <tsoome_> igork loader starting address is printed out quite early; however, sine it was dboot blowing up, I'd start with dboot and its address is recorded in unix elf header - 0xc00000 (the PT_LOAD entry with vaddr and paddr having the same value.
14:42:19 <wacki> I have a question regarding our binutils. While building the latest 2.42 version I found out that OI has one patch that OmniOS doesn't have, and OmniOS has two additional patches that OI doesn't have. Solaris-userland has only one patch (for binutils-2.40) that neither OI nor OmniOS have. 
14:43:23 <wacki> The patches OI and OmniOS have in common are named (OmniOS) ld64so.patch andld64so.patch
14:44:17 <wacki> The patches only OmniOS has are gold-fallocate.patch and startstop.patch.
14:44:55 <wacki> Despite startstop.patch no patch comes with an explanation what makes it hard to check whether they are needed or not.
14:46:24 <wacki> startstop.patch reverts a commit from upstream that is more than 3 years old.
14:46:55 <wacki> I wonder why OI hasn't been hit by the problem it should resolve yet.
14:49:17 <wacki> Solaris userland has a patch named 00_gstrip.patch which removes .SUNW_sym.*sort sections according to its comment.
14:51:19 <wacki> OI has a patch named 02-gas.write.c.patch which seems to be quite old (2012?) nobody else seem to use.
14:51:54 <wacki> My question is: which of these patches are really needed? Does anybody have an idea?
22:10:48 <richlowe> posix_fallocate looks like it's to avoid C++ namespace damage, ld64.so is so gold uses the correct ELF interpretter, stdio-limit explains itself in the patch, it's to try to get more FILE's on 32bit systems, or limit itself to not cross the limit if it fails.
22:10:55 <richlowe> all seem necessary except perhaps posix_fallocate, if that got fixed
22:11:44 <richlowe> startstop might be unnecessary if upstream fixed the referenced bug
22:11:55 <richlowe> brb
22:28:29 <wacki> upstream commented the bug report: the change was intentional and will not be reverted.
22:29:03 <wacki> Thanks for the explanations. I will add them to the patches (your ok assumed).
22:31:37 <richlowe> you'd want to ask toomas about how FreeBSD fixed that, I guess
22:31:47 <richlowe> and yeah, add those if it helps :)
22:32:21 <wacki> Thanks again.
23:47:11 <tsoome_> freebsd does not depend on gnu binutils.