[PATCH] Add support for ELF notes

[Sebastian Huber]

On 23.03.23 20:07, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 24/3/2023 3:57 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 23.03.23 17:52, Will wrote:
>>> Great idea to store this information in the executable itself. Does this need
>>> a RTEMS_TEST_STATE_LINK_ONLY test state or something similar for minimum.exe?
>>
>> With the notes you can build the test. The test runner would look at the notes
>> and then decide if it makes sense to run the test or not. It could still run the
>> minimum.exe and see if it terminates.
> 
> I welcome notes support. Thanks for adding it.
> 
> How will we control and manage the notes we support?

In the new elfnote.h header file there are defines for the note type 
(domain-specific integer).

> 
> Should we document the top level notes domains (?) with some we control and
> restrict and others users can use? For example `note.rtems.test`,
> `note.rtems.kernel`, `note.rtems.bsp`, and `note.rtems.user`?

The section name doesn't matter. You can divide the number space of the 
note type for this.

> 
> Do you have any host side tools in mind to access notes apart from the standards
> like readefl? Maybe the rtems-exe-info tool could do this?

Yes, it should be added to this tool. I think the most important use 
case is the RTEMS tester currently. You can read the notes with the 
elftools for Python.

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