[LinuxBIOS] patch: extending LAR, and removing elf from linuxbios (it is not needed)

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 28.08.2007 17:29, ron minnich wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Can't we do that in an easier way? Idea:
>> struct {
>>         char misalign[1];
>>         char magic[8];
>> } lar_magic __attribute__ ((aligned(16))) = {
>>         0, "LARCHIVE"
>> };
>>
>> That should guarantee the string to be always misaligned.
> 
> My personal preference is not to depend on this type of magic. The fix
> I posted is really impossible to fail, and we want to guarantee no
> failure in this important case.

If somewhere in a lar file the magic appears with correct alignment
(maybe due to a payload we don't control), your fix will fail as well.
However, my fix is not better in that case.

> Stefan's comment about not doing stupid brute force is a good point. I
> am at fault for putting that in, but I did that because in the early
> days there were bugs in linuxbios LAR parsing code ... we need to take
> out the brute force.

Yes, that would solve all problems.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel