[coreboot] LAR TODO

[ron minnich]

On Feb 16, 2008 10:21 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
> > A slightly simpler idea. When we unpack a LAR, we could unpack to a
> > simpler format than ELF.
> Thinking longer about this, if we detect a directory with all files
> named "segmentXX" in it, we could indeed just unpack all those into a
> new (sub)lar. This is similar to the idea of copying lar from one file
> to the other. Or we join all the segmentXX files back into one single
> file with entry point, segments etc. Then we could drop that information
> out of lar, making lar itself less complex.
>


OK, this can work too. Stefan, you have an interesting viewpoint due
to your work with IBM and Cell issues.
I want to make sure we meet your needs :-)

I'm gonna walk the dog, you guys fix it whlie I'm gone :-)

I fear I'm adding more noise than information to this conversation.

ron