* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071127 18:27]: > On Nov 27, 2007 9:22 AM, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With all this, if I unpack a LAR archive, and repack it again, will it > > still produce a working archive? > > > > No, it won't. You lose the entry point info. We would have to unpack > LAR to ELF files. This is a limitation I had not thought of. Should I > have an option to unpack to elf? It would not be hard.
Hm.. either that, or we should go and write a "MANIFEST" file, containing the extra meta data. Or a combination? > Sorry to hear about OFW, how do we fix it? It has a dummy ELF header and loads parts of itself later on. Easy way: copy it all to ram and work from there. There are better ways. We'll find out. Stefan -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] • http://www.coresystems.de/ Registergericht: Amtsgericht Freiburg • HRB 7656 Geschäftsführer: Stefan Reinauer • Ust-IdNr.: DE245674866 -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios