switch-coreboot/util/lar
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 9bf25a9c08 Every time we run make in a v3 tree, lar, lzma, nrv2b and the option
table get rebuilt unconditionally due to slightly incorrect
dependencies.
That's wasteful and may hide other dependency bugs.
Fix the lar, lzma, nrv2b and option table dependencies.

This trims down recompilation time a lot. The only remaining stuff being
rebuilt is:
~/corebootv3-better_dependencies> make
  CP      build/config.h
  GEN     build/build.h
  LAR     build/coreboot.rom
  PAYLOAD none (as specified by user)
  CP      build/bios.bin
  DONE

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>


git-svn-id: svn://coreboot.org/repository/coreboot-v3@984 f3766cd6-281f-0410-b1cd-43a5c92072e9
2008-11-06 13:59:14 +00:00
..
bootblock.c Now version 3: LinuxBIOS -> coreboot rename. 2008-01-27 18:54:57 +00:00
elf.h This adds the glibc elf.h to allow compilation on non-glibc platforms. 2008-04-04 13:10:05 +00:00
example.c Now version 3: LinuxBIOS -> coreboot rename. 2008-01-27 18:54:57 +00:00
lar.c This patch fixes lar options parsing, a seg fault with long path names, and 2008-03-05 14:51:35 +00:00
lar.h Alvar Kusma found a bug in util/lar: If you try to add a file to a full 2008-03-27 23:56:36 +00:00
lib.c This patch fixes lar path handling. In particular, it adds new members to the 2008-02-28 14:56:43 +00:00
lib.h This patch fixes lar path handling. In particular, it adds new members to the 2008-02-28 14:56:43 +00:00
Makefile Every time we run make in a v3 tree, lar, lzma, nrv2b and the option 2008-11-06 13:59:14 +00:00
README Now version 3: LinuxBIOS -> coreboot rename. 2008-01-27 18:54:57 +00:00
stream.c Fix a bunch of Doxygen warnings in v3 (trivial). 2008-10-23 18:55:01 +00:00

Lightweight Archiver: lar
-----------------------

Table of Contents
  - Introduction
  - Usage
  - Archive format
  - TODO
  - Copyright and License


Introduction
------------

This is a simple archiver, similar to cpio, ar or tar. It was designed and
written for coreboot.

Design goals were
  - minimum overhead
  - maximum fault tolerance
  - simplicity

For a usage example see example.c.

For questions contact Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>.


Usage
-----

Create archive archive.lar containing files file1 ... fileN:

  $ lar c archive.lar file1 ... fileN

Extract files from archive.lar:

  $ lar x archive.lar [file1 ... fileN]

List files in archive:

  $ lar l archive.lar


Archive format
--------------

The rough format is:

 |--------------|
 | header       |
 |--------------|
 | data         |
 |--------------|
 | header       |
 |--------------|
 | data         |
 |--------------|
  ...

Headers have to be 16 byte aligned.

 |----------------------------|
 | magic (8 bytes)            |
 |----------------------------|
 | length (4 bytes)           |
 |----------------------------|
 | checksum (4 bytes)         |
 |----------------------------|
 | offset to blob (4 bytes)   |
 |----------------------------|
 | "path name"                | <-- null terminated, aligned to 16 bytes
 |----------------------------|
 | blob (aligned to 16 bytes) |
 |----------------------------|


TODO
----

  - Reading flash layouts
  - This does not enforce any alignment yet
  - Alignment enforcing will be optional


Copyright and License
---------------------

Copyright (C) 2006-2007 coresystems GmbH
Written by Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de> for coresystems GmbH.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA, 02110-1301 USA

Note: The files lar.h and example.c are dual-licensed. You can choose between:
 - The GNU GPL, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 - The revised BSD license (without advertising clause). See lar.h.