[LinuxBIOS] v3: convert stage2 to multi-segment LAR

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Tue Nov 27 19:25:03 CET 2007


On 27.11.2007 18:27, ron minnich wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 9:22 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> With all this, if I unpack a LAR archive, and repack it again, will it
>> still produce a working archive?
>>
>>     
>
> No, it won't. You lose the entry point info. We would have to unpack
> LAR to ELF files. This is a limitation I had not thought of. Should I
> have an option to unpack to elf? It would not be hard.
>   

I suggested that when you were introducing the ELF parsing to lar. So
yes, I still think this si a good idea.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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