> From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Feb 15, 2008 1:37 PM, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you remind me why you'd want to put an ELF file into a lar, then > > take it out and put it into an ELF again? What about all the sections > > we throw away when we put an ELF into the lar? > > > When we take a file out of LAR, we lose the LAR header. That header, > for payloads, is derived from ELF. So the extract from LAR loses > information. > > If we had an option to pull a file from LAR, and generate an ELF, we > can then put that file in another LAR later. That's my understanding > of it.
So the use case is that you have a lar file, but don't have the ELF that you started with originally, and you want to put it into a different lar file? It might be easier to remove the other things in the lar instead, or do a lar copy from one lar to a new lar, which wouldn't lose the entry points. Sorry to be dense, but it would help me know if it's even possible if I could understand the use case. When we parse the ELF we lose information like section names, that we won't be able to recover. Myles -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
