On 01.07.2007 00:51, Peter Stuge wrote: > 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.
Sorry, our implementation of lzma decompression does not decompress to a stream, only in bulk. Choosing streaming decompression is possible, but the memory requirements made me decide against it. Decompression speed is also significantly slower for streaming lzma decompression. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
