> -----Original Message----- > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:53 PM > To: Stefan Reinauer > Cc: ron minnich; Coreboot; Myles Watson > Subject: Re: [coreboot] LAR TODO > > On 19.02.2008 16:07, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080216 > 22:12]: > > > >>> LAR headers do not save information as to code vs. data, etc. > >>> > >>> Our choices are: > >>> 1. continue with ELF support (though I do not intend to ever use it :- > ) > >>> > >> But the ELF support outside the LAR utility should be protected by > ifdef > >> to make it easy to compile it out. > >> > > > > Yes. Let's go both ways for now. Let's make it possible to keep ELF in > > there for the "safe case" and let's make it possible to drop ELF > > completely as a path for the near future where we do all preparsing > > at build time. > > > > Myles? Could you prepare a patch which #ifdefs the code instead of > removing it?
It's non-trivial. I think it will complicate the build process, Kconfig, and code quite a bit. I think the right thing to do is add whatever support to lar is needed, then when everyone feels comfortable, use something like my last patch. Myles -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
