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stand: i386/amd64: Always use elf format for /boot/loader and pxeldr

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stand: i386/amd64: Always use elf format for /boot/loader and pxeldr

The first level boot blocks have understood how to load ELF code since

  1. Switch /boot/loader and /boot/pxeldr over to being ELF format so

that in-tree tools can examine them more closely. In addition, one
could, in theory, now have a 'lo-mem' and a 'hi-mem' segment (though a
lot of work would need to be done with bounce buffers, btx, code segment
marking, etc for an arrangement like that to work).

As far as I can tell, this is the last a.out binary in the tree. There
are several raw binaries left, but everything else is ELF.

Reviewed by: emaste, kevans
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36130

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impAuthored on Aug 11 2022, 3:18 AM
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emaste
Differential Revision
D36130: stand: i386/amd64: Always use elf format for /boot/loader and pxeldr
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rG9f9fc6bb8028: contrib/tzdata: import tzdata 2022b
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