On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:03:26PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > My proposal would be to decompress the ELF image to some location, > lookk if that location overlaps with the places the data is copied > to, and if so, determine a large-enough chunk of memory and > decompress it to there again
Sorry, NAK. I don't like unneccessary work. If need be, teach elfboot to peek into compressed streams so that it can tell the decompressor a safe place to decomress to. On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:55:25PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > Right now, my solution is to mark it nocompress:, before that, > > I just decompressed it to a fixed location for experimentation. > > It has to be done one way or the other. > > I think the uncompress: marker is fine. It must be automatic. > I think we really want to freeze lar in the long or even short run. Certainly, but let's wait until later. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
