[coreboot] SELF/ELF/LAR

[Patrick Georgi]

Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 10:26 -0600 schrieb Jordan Crouse:
> > How about teaching LAR to have chunks, like:
> >   LAR header (file is 40000 bytes compressed, 160000 uncomp., 3 chunks)
> >   chunk header 1 (200 bytes, compression type 1)
> >    data (eg. ELF headers)
> >   chunk header 2 (39000 bytes, compression type 2)
> >    more data (most sections in ELF)
> >   chunk header 3 (800 bytes, compression type 3)
> >    some more data
> > 
> > chunk headers could be written only if there's more than one chunk,
> > making this backward compatible.
> Is this that much different then SELF?
The chunk headers are part of the LAR structure, not SELF (or ELF, if
you use some of the spare bits for compression information)


Regards,
Patrick