[coreboot] Time for a new project

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 20:02:34 CEST 2008


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> > What is the means by which I can create an ELF file such that the
> > segment data is compressed, but the segment headers are not, and I can
> > know which compression algorithm was used, so that I can do a
> > streaming decompress of a segment into memory, a.k.a zero-copy?
> >
>
>  Let me start by firing back another question: why do you want this?


why would I not? I want to have descriptors, uncompressed, for data,
compressed, so that I can uncompress the data in a streaming mode to
the right place in memory.

ron




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