On 16.02.2008 19:21, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > ron minnich wrote: >> A slightly simpler idea. When we unpack a LAR, we could unpack to a >> simpler format than ELF. > Thinking longer about this, if we detect a directory with all files > named "segmentXX" in it, we could indeed just unpack all those into a > new (sub)lar. This is similar to the idea of copying lar from one file > to the other. Or we join all the segmentXX files back into one single > file with entry point, segments etc. Then we could drop that > information out of lar, making lar itself less complex.
The strength of LAR is that no intermediate decompression during runtime is needed. I want to preserve that strength because it saves us from hacks where we have to guess a reasonable are where we can decompress to. That temporary decompression area must not overlap with the areas the segments of the ELF should be loaded to. I hope the analysis in my other mail in this thread helps us to focus on the details of the problem before we attempt a solution. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
