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Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> Acked-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de> git-svn-id: svn://coreboot.org/repository/LinuxBIOSv3@42 f3766cd6-281f-0410-b1cd-43a5c92072e9
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LinuxBIOS Archiver: lar
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Table of Contents
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- Introduction
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- Usage
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- Archive format
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- TODO
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- ChangeLog
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Introduction
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This is a simple archiver, similar to cpio, ar or tar.
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Design goals were
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- minimum overhead
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- maximum fault tolerance
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- simplicity
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For a usage example see example.c.
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For questions contact Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>.
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Usage
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Create archive archive.lar containing files file1 ... fileN
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$ lar c archive.lar file1 ... fileN
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Extract files from archive.lar
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$ lar x archive.lar [file1 ... fileN]
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List files in archive:
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$ lar l archive.lar
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Archive format
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The rough format is:
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|--------------|
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| header |
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|--------------|
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| data |
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|--------------|
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| header |
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|--------------|
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| data |
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|--------------|
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...
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Headers have to be 16 byte aligned.
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|--------------------|
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| magic (8byte) |
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| length (4byte) |
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|--------------------|
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| checksum (4byte) |
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|--------------------|
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| offset to blob (4b)|
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|--------------------|
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| "path name" | <-- null terminated, aligned to 16b
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|--------------------|
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| blob (aligned 16b) |
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|--------------------|
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TODO
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- Reading flash layouts
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- This does not enforce any alignment yet
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- Alignment enforcing will be optional
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License
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This program is licensed under the terms of the GPL, version 2.
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ChangeLog
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2006/10/9
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- Initial version
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