On 27.08.2007 19:25, ron minnich wrote: > don't get too scared about the subject line. > > LAR is a very capable format. With two simple extensions, we can use > LAR to replace all that we are using ELF for now. This change can > really make life better: > 1. we can use streaming decompress instead of the current "uncompress > elf to memory and then copy segments" approach. > [...] > 5. did I mention streaming decompress?
Streaming decompress for lzma (in the byte-wise decompress meaning) needs quite a big buffer, so it is not attractive. However, if you mean segment-wise decompress (if segments are compressed individually), that would work fine. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
