[coreboot] SELF/ELF/LAR

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Apr 15 22:49:37 CEST 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:14:47AM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> On extraction:  It seems to me that very few end users will want to
> extract payloads from a ROM.  That seems like a task better suited
> for developers.

I think this will be much more popular than one would first believe.


> End users would more likely insert an ELF.

Yes, definately, which is why I think it is important to not need an
extra tool/step.


> I'm unclear on this, because I don't understand the resistance to
> ELF segments in the LAR.

I guess because we've produced so inconsistent quality ELF files.


//Peter




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