On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:57:43AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Hello, Marco!
> >
> > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:27 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >
> >> There is another problem with this: the maintainance burden. People
> >> k
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:27:08PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bean writes:
>
> > Why another format ? Here are some reason:
> >
> > The current object format is ELF. Most unix based os use ELF as native
> > object format, but there are minor difference, and gcc may add extra
> > segme
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 00:57 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> What about SELF? (coreboot format) If it's sane I would prefer to
> share a format between these 2 projects.
The description is here: http://www.coreboot.org/SELF
I think the biggest problem is lack of support for any relo
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello, Marco!
>
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:27 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
>
>> There is another problem with this: the maintainance burden. People
>> know ELF, we have ELF and people will know ELF in the future.
>> Furthermore, as far as I am c
Hello, Marco!
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:27 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> There is another problem with this: the maintainance burden. People
> know ELF, we have ELF and people will know ELF in the future.
> Furthermore, as far as I am concerned, GNU/Linux is our main
> platform. I do not mind su
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bean writes:
>
>> Why another format ? Here are some reason:
>>
>> The current object format is ELF. Most unix based os use ELF as native
>> object format, but there are minor difference, and gcc may add extra
>> segment which is of n
Hi,
Bean writes:
> Why another format ? Here are some reason:
>
> The current object format is ELF. Most unix based os use ELF as native
> object format, but there are minor difference, and gcc may add extra
> segment which is of no use for grub. Mingw/cygwin uses PE, and we need
> to convert it
