[coreboot] Time for a new project
Philip Schulz
philip.s.schulz at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 12 16:09:10 CEST 2008
Patrick,
thank you for your quick answer.
Regards,
Phil
2008/4/12, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>:
> Am Samstag, den 12.04.2008, 15:36 +0200 schrieb Philip Schulz:
>
> > For the unexperienced like me: Why would anybody need either LAR or
> > SELF? I kind of understand the reasoning behind LAR, but why would
> > SELF be neccessary? Can't you just extract a regular ELF file from a
> > LAR archive and then load it?
>
> Xou have to be prepared for the possibility that the most interesting
> header comes last (after all the data). If that ELF image is compressed,
> that means that you'll get to decompress everything (to somewhere), then
> read that header, then copy everything around once more (and deal with
> overlapping regions between your uncompressed copy and the final ELF
> layout).
>
> Right now, the ELF parser simply requires that this header is at the
> beginning of the file, and fails otherwise - not nice, but "sane".
>
> SELF promises proper handling of that, with a parser that is smaller,
> more simple and more obviously correct than the current ELF parser.
>
>
> > What do you mean by "streamload code" and why would you want to get
> > rid of the ELF loader?
>
> Streamloading code means the capability of reading the image (ELF, SELF,
> whatever) byte-by-byte, and being able to make sense of that without
> needing knowledge from information that comes later in the file.
>
> ELF allows for flexibility we don't need, and that we don't want to cope
> with.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick Georgi
>
>
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