Re: [LinuxBIOS] ELF loader in v3

[Peter Stuge]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:21:04AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > If need be, teach elfboot to peek into compressed streams so that
> > it can tell the decompressor a safe place to decomress to.
>
> Sorry, our implementation of lzma decompression does not decompress
> to a stream, only in bulk.

So compress only the ELF segments but not the header.

(This is a good reason to have compression built into lar, since
it would constitute crazy weird ELF trickery if done manually.)

//Peter