2008/198: elfwrap - wrap data in an ELF file

[Darren J Moffat]

Rod Evans wrote:
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> I'm sponsoring the following case for myself.   This case qualifies for
> Architectural self-review, but I wish to record the following
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> A request from the "ddi" folks (6675591), for a means of wrapping firmware
> updates into an object that can be easily loaded by a device driver, has
> triggered the creation of a new generic utility, elfwrap(1).  The new
> elfwrap(1) man page says it all.  Plus, an update to ddli_modopen(9f)
> provides a suitable cross reference.

This case seems to be somewhat related to "2008/151 Pluggable 
fwflash(1M).  The relation I'm seeing is that they are both related to 
firmware updates.

Are they related or are two different solutions being created to solve 
firmware updates ?  If so why do we need two different things ?

Now that aside I can see other (very hacky) uses for this and I "love" 
the example of wrapping /etc/passwd - that is pretty cute.

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Darren J Moffat