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[Pedro F. Giffuni]

Hello;

I don't think it's a good idea to stop using the ELF_OSABI field.
For one thing, we've been using it since 1999 and we are registered
along with most commercial UNIX vendors:

http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html#elfid

ELF notes are only used by GNU guys (therefore binutils) and we
only support it since 2009 (mainly to stop using brandelf for the
linuxulator). We aren't registered on the site that seems to document
them.

Pedro.