[coreboot] Time for a new project

[Philip Schulz]

Patrick,

 thank you for your quick answer.

Regards,

Phil

2008/4/12, Patrick Georgi <patrick at georgi-clan.de>:
> Am Samstag, den 12.04.2008, 15:36 +0200 schrieb Philip Schulz:
>
> >  For the unexperienced like me: Why would anybody need either LAR or
>  > SELF? I kind of understand the reasoning behind LAR, but why would
>  > SELF be neccessary? Can't you just extract a regular ELF file from a
>  > LAR archive and then load it?
>
> Xou have to be prepared for the possibility that the most interesting
>  header comes last (after all the data). If that ELF image is compressed,
>  that means that you'll get to decompress everything (to somewhere), then
>  read that header, then copy everything around once more (and deal with
>  overlapping regions between your uncompressed copy and the final ELF
>  layout).
>
>  Right now, the ELF parser simply requires that this header is at the
>  beginning of the file, and fails otherwise - not nice, but "sane".
>
>  SELF promises proper handling of that, with a parser that is smaller,
>  more simple and more obviously correct than the current ELF parser.
>
>
>  > What do you mean by "streamload code" and why would you want to get
>  > rid of the ELF loader?
>
> Streamloading code means the capability of reading the image (ELF, SELF,
>  whatever) byte-by-byte, and being able to make sense of that without
>  needing knowledge from information that comes later in the file.
>
>  ELF allows for flexibility we don't need, and that we don't want to cope
>  with.
>
>
>  Regards,
>
> Patrick Georgi
>
>