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  “Polaris kernel”   [  31 May 2006  ]

Polaris kernel
“Polaris kernel”
   This is the actual Polaris bootable OpenSolaris based kernel for PowerPC :

      3235268   May 31 03:09 unix

   MD5SUM md5 (unix.bz2) = 9d06cbfd68e33ce7cd33be960b3dc9e2



   This file was last updated at
   Wed May 31 19:29:04 CDT 2006

Polaris kernel
“Polaris kernel”
   This was a photo taken on another Genesi ODW.

Polaris Update - unix: ELF 32-bit MSB executable PowerPC Version 1, statically linked, stripped
The kernel is here > > >  Polaris  < < <    MD5SUM md5 (unix.bz2) = 9d06cbfd68e33ce7cd33be960b3dc9e2 bash-3.1$ ls -lap unix -rw-r--r-- 1 dclarke csw 3235268 May 31 00:42 unix bash-3.1$ file unix unix: ELF 32-bit MSB executable PowerPC Version 1, statically linked, stripped bash-3.1$ elfdump unix ELF Header ei_magic: { 0x7f, E, L, F } ei_class: ELFCLASS32 ei_data: ELFDATA2MSB e_machine: EM_PPC e_version: EV_CURRENT e_type: ET_EXEC e_flags: 0 e_entry: 0x800000 e_ehsize: 52 e_shstrndx: 9 e_shoff: 0x315c34 e_shentsize: 40 e_shnum: 10 e_phoff: 0x34 e_phentsize: 32 e_phnum: 1 Program Header[0]: p_vaddr: 0x800000 p_flags: [ PF_X PF_W PF_R ] p_paddr: 0x800000 p_type: [ PT_LOAD ] p_filesz: 0x304cbc p_memsz: 0x3692b0 p_offset: 0x10000 p_align: 0x10000 Section Header[1]: sh_name: .text sh_addr: 0x800000 sh_flags: [ SHF_ALLOC SHF_EXECINSTR ] sh_size: 0x2bccec sh_type: [ SHT_PROGBITS ] sh_offset: 0x10000 sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x10 Section Header[2]: sh_name: .rodata sh_addr: 0xabccf0 sh_flags: [ SHF_ALLOC ] sh_size: 0x39650 sh_type: [ SHT_PROGBITS ] sh_offset: 0x2cccf0 sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x8 Section Header[3]: sh_name: .sdata2 sh_addr: 0xaf6340 sh_flags: [ SHF_ALLOC ] sh_size: 0 sh_type: [ SHT_PROGBITS ] sh_offset: 0x306340 sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x4 Section Header[4]: sh_name: .data sh_addr: 0xaf6340 sh_flags: [ SHF_WRITE SHF_ALLOC ] sh_size: 0xe398 sh_type: [ SHT_PROGBITS ] sh_offset: 0x306340 sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x20 Section Header[5]: sh_name: .sdata sh_addr: 0xb046d8 sh_flags: [ SHF_WRITE SHF_ALLOC ] sh_size: 0x5e4 sh_type: [ SHT_PROGBITS ] sh_offset: 0x3146d8 sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x8 Section Header[6]: sh_name: .sbss sh_addr: 0xb04cc0 sh_flags: [ SHF_WRITE SHF_ALLOC ] sh_size: 0x1a18 sh_type: [ SHT_NOBITS ] sh_offset: 0x314cbc sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x8 Section Header[7]: sh_name: .bss sh_addr: 0xb066d8 sh_flags: [ SHF_WRITE SHF_ALLOC ] sh_size: 0x62bd8 sh_type: [ SHT_NOBITS ] sh_offset: 0x314cbc sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x8 Section Header[8]: sh_name: .comment sh_addr: 0 sh_flags: 0 sh_size: 0xf36 sh_type: [ SHT_PROGBITS ] sh_offset: 0x314cbc sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x1 Section Header[9]: sh_name: .shstrtab sh_addr: 0 sh_flags: 0 sh_size: 0x42 sh_type: [ SHT_STRTAB ] sh_offset: 0x315bf2 sh_entsize: 0 sh_link: 0 sh_info: 0 sh_addralign: 0x1 Or from Fedora Core 4 on PowerPC we see : [dclarke@ppc ~]$ file unix unix: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped [dclarke@ppc ~]$ local/bin/readelf -e -w unix ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF32 Data: 2's complement, big endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 Type: EXEC (Executable file) Machine: PowerPC Version: 0x1 Entry point address: 0x800000 Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file) Start of section headers: 3234868 (bytes into file) Flags: 0x0 Size of this header: 52 (bytes) Size of program headers: 32 (bytes) Number of program headers: 1 Size of section headers: 40 (bytes) Number of section headers: 10 Section header string table index: 9 Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .text PROGBITS 00800000 010000 2bccec 00 AX 0 0 16 [ 2] .rodata PROGBITS 00abccf0 2cccf0 039650 00 A 0 0 8 [ 3] .sdata2 PROGBITS 00af6340 306340 000000 00 A 0 0 4 [ 4] .data PROGBITS 00af6340 306340 00e398 00 WA 0 0 32 [ 5] .sdata PROGBITS 00b046d8 3146d8 0005e4 00 WA 0 0 8 [ 6] .sbss NOBITS 00b04cc0 314cbc 001a18 00 WA 0 0 8 [ 7] .bss NOBITS 00b066d8 314cbc 062bd8 00 WA 0 0 8 [ 8] .comment PROGBITS 00000000 314cbc 000f36 00 0 0 1 [ 9] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 315bf2 000042 00 0 0 1 Key to Flags: W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings) I (info), L (link order), G (group), x (unknown) O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific) Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align LOAD 0x010000 0x00800000 0x00800000 0x304cbc 0x3692b0 RWE 0x10000 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .text .rodata .data .sdata .sbss .bss Updated at Tue May 30 23:58:18 CDT 2006 Dennis Clarke Director Blastwave.org


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