Re: [LinuxBIOS] v3: convert stage2 to multi-segment LAR

[Jordan Crouse]

On 27/11/07 18:51 +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> ron minnich  [071127 18:27]:
> > On Nov 27, 2007 9:22 AM, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> > > With all this, if I unpack a LAR archive, and repack it again, will it
> > > still produce a working archive?
> >
> > No, it won't. You lose the entry point info. We would have to unpack
> > LAR to ELF files. This is a limitation I had not thought of. Should I
> > have an option to unpack to elf? It would not be hard.
>
> Hm.. either that, or we should go and write a "MANIFEST" file,
> containing the extra meta data. Or a combination?

At some point, I predect we're going to end up needing a MANIFEST file,
we might as well do it now.  Then that covers us from all possible
directions.  Right now things work for ELF, but someday somebody will want
COFF, or CE binary format or something like that and it will through the
universe into flux.  If we have the manifest file, then we are covered
in all cases.

Jordan
> > Sorry to hear about OFW, how do we fix it?
>
> It has a dummy ELF header and loads parts of itself later on. Easy way:
> copy it all to ram and work from there. There are better ways. We'll
> find out.
>
> Stefan