Linux: add a note to the ELF binary what minimum Linux is needed

Change-Id: Ia53158e207a94bf49489fffd14c8d2a1f173ff97
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Marc Mutz <marc.mutz@kdab.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>

1 files changed, 92 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/global/minimum-linux.S b/src/corelib/global/minimum-linux.S
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+
+/* Copied from #include <elf.h>:
+ */
+#define ELF_NOTE_GNU            "GNU"
+#define NT_GNU_ABI_TAG          1
+#define ELF_NOTE_OS_LINUX       0
+
+#ifdef __arm__
+#  define progbits              %progbits
+#  define note                  %note
+#else
+#  define progbits              @progbits
+#  define note                  @note
+#endif
+
+/* Add information for the ELF dynamic linker what the minimum Linux version
+ * required for Qt is.
+ *
+ * The .note.ABI-tag note section is defined at
+ *  https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/noteabitag.html
+ */
+
+    .section    ".note.GNU-stack", "", progbits
+    .section    ".note.ABI-tag", "a", note
+    .align      4       /* we have 32-bit data */
+
+/*  * For the format of the note section's contents, see Elf32_Nhdr / Elf64_Nhdr */
+    .long       .Lnameend-.Lname        /* n_namesz */
+    .long       16                      /* n_descsz(16 bytes, normative) */
+    .long       NT_GNU_ABI_TAG          /* n_type */
+
+.Lname:
+    .asciz      ELF_NOTE_GNU
+.Lnameend:
+
+/* Operating systems: */
+    .long       ELF_NOTE_OS_LINUX
+
+/* Minimum Linux kernel version:
+ * We require the following features in Qt (unconditional, no fallback):
+ *   Feature                    Added in version
+ * - inotify_init1              before 2.6.12-rc12
+ * - futex(2)                   before 2.6.12-rc12
+ * - FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG         2.6.22
+ * - O_CLOEXEC                  2.6.23
+ * - eventfd                    2.6.23
+ * - pipe2 & dup3               2.6.27
+ * - accept4                    2.6.28
+ */
+
+    .long       2
+    .long       6
+    .long       28
+