Dear OpenBSD developers! I'm writing a boot loader, https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/simpleboot It can already boot Linux kernels and Multiboot2 kernels, and I was thinking about adding OpenBSD kernel support too.
For testing I've downloaded the minimal image from here: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.3/amd64/miniroot73.img To my biggest surprise, in it the "boot" file's ELF header says: $ readelf -h boot ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF32 Data: 2's complement, little endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 However it's entry point is clearly not 32-bit SysV ABI (but 16-bit real mode). The same issue with the uncompressed "bsd" kernel file: $ readelf -h bsd ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF64 Data: 2's complement, little endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 Although it's entry point isn't using 64-bit SysV ABI either (but prot mode with special values on the stack). This is problematic for me because I do support both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels with actual SysV ABI entry points, and now I cannot distinguish OpenBSD from those. My question is, would it be possible to use the ELFOSABI_OPENBSD value in the ELF header of "boot" and "bsd" executable? If that's problematic for whatever reason, then would it be possible to use 255 (the ELFOSABI_STANDALONE define) instead? Or maybe ABI version 1? Frankly anything other than UNIX SysV 0 would be fine, because they're not using SysV ABI. Thanks, bzt
