Re: [PATCH v5 11/24] tools headers UAPI: Sync ELF headers with the kernel sources

From: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)

Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 05:24:55 EST




Le 08/09/2026 à 08:33, Thomas Weißschuh a écrit :
Pick up changes from the UAPI ELF header files.
This picks up general changes to elf.h, elf-em.h which was forgotten
previously and the new elf-r.h.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/include/uapi/linux/elf-em.h | 71 ++++
tools/include/uapi/linux/elf-r.h | 696 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 112 +++++-
3 files changed, 868 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/elf-em.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/elf-em.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef38c2bc5ab7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/elf-em.h
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+#ifndef _LINUX_ELF_EM_H
+#define _LINUX_ELF_EM_H
+
+/* These constants define the various ELF target machines */
+#define EM_NONE 0
+#define EM_M32 1
+#define EM_SPARC 2
+#define EM_386 3
+#define EM_68K 4
+#define EM_88K 5
+#define EM_486 6 /* Perhaps disused */
+#define EM_860 7

Add a comment that it is /* Intel 80860 */ to avoid confusion with powerpc 860

+#define EM_MIPS 8 /* MIPS R3000 (officially, big-endian only) */
+ /* Next two are historical and binaries and
+ modules of these types will be rejected by
+ Linux. */
+#define EM_MIPS_RS3_LE 10 /* MIPS R3000 little-endian */
+#define EM_MIPS_RS4_BE 10 /* MIPS R4000 big-endian */
+