[coreboot] LZMA magic number

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 25.01.2008 18:58, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:55:24AM -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
>   
>> I accidentally used an uncompressed payload with v2 when it
>> expected a compressed payload, and it gave me the message:
>>
>>        Decoder scratchpad too small!!
>>        Decoding error = 1
>>     
>
> I got this too.
>
>
>   
>> I think it would be nicer to have an error like:
>>
>>        Payload not compressed with lzma!
>>     
>
> And we can check it already at build time.
>   

LZMA compressed payloads to not have a magic number, all you can do is
check if the header parameters are in a reasonable range. Sorry.
This problem fortunately does not exist in v3 because LAR does the
compression itself and notes the compression type in th header.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel