[coreboot] v3 patch rm elfboot

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 20:11:25 CET 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:

>  You unpack it, repack it, and the segments become ordinary files with
>  their lar headers containing bogus information.

excellent point.
>
>  So either we recreate an ELF file on unpack, or we dump the metadata to
>  a MANIFEST file.

Why not have a way to unpack and create LAR files? i.e. each file has
the LAR header in it.

ron




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