Re: [Etherboot-developers] PXELINUX on top of Etherboot?

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Except when I implement sanity checks there is no parsing with ELF
> headers either, the structures area all native endian, and wordsize.
> The difference is load this chunk into memory at this address, and
> load these other chunks into memory at these other addresses, and
> finally jump there. 
> 

Right... I have a coarse-grained routine that maps the file at a single 
address without looking at it at all first.

> I get some real portability and prototyping benefits because it is
> a standard file format.  But when space is at an absolute premium
> those aren't the most important things.  

Right.  Note that I usually use standard ELF tools to construct COM32 
images, and then just "objcopy -O binary" to finish.  Very simple.

> 
> Especially when there is proper tail recursion.  :)
> 
> I already use that test path with ELF images.  And if the recursion
> stops before I tell it to I know there is something wrong!
> 
> And it already exist with the mknbi format as well.
> 

Hmmm.... :/

	-hpa