svn commit: r48594 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 12 22:29:19 UTC 2016

Author: wblock
Date: Tue Apr 12 22:29:17 2016
New Revision: 48594
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48594

Log:
  Add ELF toolchain report from Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org>.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 22:25:28 2016	(r48593)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 22:29:17 2016	(r48594)
@@ -1232,4 +1232,70 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='bin'>
+    <title>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">ELF Tool Chain web site</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>The ELF Tool Chain project released version 0.7.1 in
+	February.  We have been tracking snapshots of the upstream
+	repository in &os; and are not blocked waiting for releases to
+	update. Having an official release brings the benefit of
+	broader testing and visibility within other open source
+	projects.</p>
+
+      <p>In the first quarter of 2016 The ELF Tool Chain tools were
+	updated to a snapshot of upstream SVN revision 3400, which
+	is close to the 0.7.1 release.  Additional bug fixes were
+	committed to FreeBSD and subsequently merged into the upstream
+	repository.</p>
+
+      <p>ELF Tool Chain's <tt>elfcopy(1)</tt> is now installed as
+	<tt>objcopy(1)</tt> by default as it is a viable replacement
+	for the base system and ports tree.</p>
+
+      <p>Significant improvements were made to the
+	<tt>elfcopy(1)</tt>, <tt>readelf(1)</tt>, and
+	<tt>elfdump(1)</tt> tools, including better MIPS, RISC-V, and
+	AArch64 support.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Fix issues found by fuzzing inputs to the tools.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Add automatic support for separate debug files.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Investigate replacement objdump, ld and as
+	  implementations.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
