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I wouldn't think you'd need to create a new format, just write up a spec of what all available FOSS implementations are actually doing and agree that that's the
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
I wouldn't think you'd need to create a new format, just write up a spec of what all available FOSS implementations are actually doing and agree that that's the standard going forward. Between Linux/*BSD/illumos you should be able to pretty completely describe all currently-active uses of ELF.
(Of course this assumes that doing this is sufficient to make it legally not derived from the original spec as far as copyright law cares about, which is beyond my non-lawyer ability to be that confident in.)
- skissane 2y ago> Between Linux/*BSD/illumos you should be able to pretty completely describe all currently-active uses of ELF. OpenVMS uses ELF too. Rather niche proprietary OS but still maintained and in production use. (Not a new thing with x86-64 port, ELF was adopted during the Alpha to Iranian transition.) As do many RTOS (both open source and proprietary)
- Iwan-Zotow 2y agoTo WHAT transition?
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoLol. Although, Itanium does have an entertaining history of having caused a lot of positive changes even though it crashed and burned itself - it's where we got UEFI, and apparently a good time for some OSs to pick up ELF.
- skissane 2y agoI typed Itanium and my phone very helpfully “corrected” it to Iranian and unfortunately I didn’t notice it had done so