diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index ca3d075a9..d807bd4f5 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -200,8 +200,10 @@ There are four important environment variables.
 (glibc since 2.2.3)
 Each shared library can inform the dynamic linker of the minimum kernel ABI
 version that it requires.
-(This requirement is encoded in an ELF note section that is typically named
-.IR .note.ABI-tag .)
+(This requirement is encoded in an ELF note section that is viewable via
+.IR "readelf\ \-n"
+as a section labeled
+.BR NT_GNU_ABI_TAG .)
 At run time,
 the dynamic linker determines the ABI version of the running kernel and
 will reject loading shared libraries that specify minimum ABI versions