Re: [coreboot] v3 patch rm elfboot

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 14.02.2008 20:11, ron minnich wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> > You unpack it, repack it, and the segments become ordinary files with
> >  their lar headers containing bogus information.
>
> excellent point.

Yes, unfortunately.
> > 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.

Hm. It's not that hard to create a MANIFEST file. And the patch I sent
twice (which was NACKed twice) to specify LAR header contents on the LAR
command line would work perfectly together with the MANIFEST. No
information lost. I can resend the patch...

Regards,
Carl-Daniel