On 14.02.2008 20:11, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You unpack it, repack it, and the segments become ordinary files with >> their lar headers containing bogus information. >> > > excellent point. >
Yes, unfortunately. >> So either we recreate an ELF file on unpack, or we dump the metadata to >> a MANIFEST file. >> > > Why not have a way to unpack and create LAR files? i.e. each file has > the LAR header in it. > Hm. It's not that hard to create a MANIFEST file. And the patch I sent twice (which was NACKed twice) to specify LAR header contents on the LAR command line would work perfectly together with the MANIFEST. No information lost. I can resend the patch... Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
