Re: [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