diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a5f7b813..bfdcae80 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ User visible changes for UPX
 
 Changes in 2.90 (xx Aug 2006):
   * vmlinuz/386: fixed zlib uncompression problem on dos
+  * new executable format BSD/elf386 supports FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD [how?]
+  * lzma algorithm support (--lzma; --brute [?])
+
+Changes in 2.02 (xx Aug 2006):
+  * work around Linux kernel bug (".bss" requires PF_W)
 
 Changes in 2.01 (06 Jun 2006):
   * arm/pe: better DLL support
diff --git a/README.SRC b/README.SRC
index 9a608860..99913160 100644
--- a/README.SRC
+++ b/README.SRC
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ If you want to modify the stub sources you'll also need
 
   - Other cross compilers targeted at the following architectures.
        - arm-9tdmi-linux-gnu
+       - arm-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.0
+         [via crosstool-0.42 using gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.2.dat]
        - powerpc-750-linux-gnu
        - x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
     See http://upx.sourceforge.net/download/tools/ for pre-compiled
diff --git a/src/p_lx_elf.cpp b/src/p_lx_elf.cpp
index ca6e1b8a..d95a2ddb 100644
--- a/src/p_lx_elf.cpp
+++ b/src/p_lx_elf.cpp
@@ -50,15 +50,10 @@ int
 PackLinuxElf32::checkEhdr(Elf32_Ehdr const *ehdr) const
 {
     const unsigned char * const buf = ehdr->e_ident;
-    unsigned osabi0 = buf[Elf32_Ehdr::EI_OSABI];
-    if (0==osabi0) {
-        osabi0 = opt->o_unix.osabi0;
-    }
 
     if (0!=memcmp(buf, "\x7f\x45\x4c\x46", 4)  // "\177ELF"
     ||  buf[Elf32_Ehdr::EI_CLASS]!=ei_class
     ||  buf[Elf32_Ehdr::EI_DATA] !=ei_data
-    ||                     osabi0!=ei_osabi
     ) {
         return -1;
     }
@@ -146,7 +141,7 @@ PackLinuxElf64::checkEhdr(Elf64_Ehdr const *ehdr) const
 PackLinuxElf::PackLinuxElf(InputFile *f)
     : super(f), file_image(NULL), dynstr(NULL),
     sz_phdrs(0), sz_elf_hdrs(0),
-    e_machine(0), ei_class(0), ei_data(0), ei_osabi(0)
+    e_machine(0), ei_class(0), ei_data(0), ei_osabi(0), osabi_note(NULL)
 {
 }
 
@@ -825,20 +820,42 @@ bool PackLinuxElf32::canPack()
         return false;
     }
 
+    unsigned osabi0 = buf[Elf32_Ehdr::EI_OSABI];
     // The first PT_LOAD32 must cover the beginning of the file (0==p_offset).
     unsigned const e_phnum = get_native16(&ehdr->e_phnum);
     Elf32_Phdr const *phdr = (Elf32_Phdr const *)(buf + e_phoff);
     for (unsigned j=0; j < e_phnum; ++phdr, ++j) {
         if (j >= 14)
-            return false;
-        if (phdr->PT_LOAD32 == get_native32(&phdr->p_type)) {
+                return false;
+        if (1!=exetype && phdr->PT_LOAD32 == get_native32(&phdr->p_type)) {
             if (phdr->p_offset != 0) {
                 throwCantPack("invalid Phdr p_offset; try `--force-execve'");
                 return false;
             }
             exetype = 1;
-            break;
         }
+        if (Elf32_Ehdr::ELFOSABI_NONE==osabi0  // Still seems to be generic.
+        && NULL!=osabi_note && phdr->PT_NOTE == get_native32(&phdr->p_type)) {
+            unsigned const offset = get_native32(&phdr->p_offset);
+            struct Elf32_Note note; memset(&note, 0, sizeof(note));
+            fi->seek(offset, SEEK_SET);
+            fi->readx(&note, sizeof(note));
+            fi->seek(0, SEEK_SET);
+            if (4==get_native32(&note.descsz)
+            &&  1==get_native32(&note.type)
+            &&  0==note.end
+            &&  (1+ strlen(osabi_note))==get_native32(&note.namesz)
+            &&  0==strcmp(osabi_note, (char const *)&note.text)
+            ) {
+                osabi0 = ei_osabi;  // Specified by PT_NOTE.
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if (Elf32_Ehdr::ELFOSABI_NONE==osabi0) { // No EI_OSBAI, no PT_NOTE.
+        osabi0 = opt->o_unix.osabi0;  // Possibly specified by command-line.
+    }
+    if (osabi0!=ei_osabi) {
+        return false;
     }
 
     // We want to compress position-independent executable (gcc -pie)
@@ -1937,6 +1954,7 @@ PackFreeBSDElf32x86::~PackFreeBSDElf32x86()
 PackNetBSDElf32x86::PackNetBSDElf32x86(InputFile *f) : super(f)
 {
     ei_osabi  = Elf32_Ehdr::ELFOSABI_NETBSD;
+    osabi_note = "NetBSD";
 }
 
 PackNetBSDElf32x86::~PackNetBSDElf32x86()
@@ -1946,6 +1964,7 @@ PackNetBSDElf32x86::~PackNetBSDElf32x86()
 PackOpenBSDElf32x86::PackOpenBSDElf32x86(InputFile *f) : super(f)
 {
     ei_osabi  = Elf32_Ehdr::ELFOSABI_OPENBSD;
+    osabi_note = "OpenBSD";
 }
 
 PackOpenBSDElf32x86::~PackOpenBSDElf32x86()
diff --git a/src/p_lx_elf.h b/src/p_lx_elf.h
index 1c31483c..d1550071 100644
--- a/src/p_lx_elf.h
+++ b/src/p_lx_elf.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ protected:
     unsigned char ei_class;
     unsigned char ei_data;
     unsigned char ei_osabi;
+    char const *osabi_note;
 };
 
 class PackLinuxElf32 : public PackLinuxElf