Source code organization

The tools/ directory

Into tools/, we have put some tools that we don't want to rely on on the host platform, mostly because some versions of these tools are known to be buggy and we want to make sure that a specific version is used.

The tools are sorted into subdirectories for the various platforms:

• x86.linux contains:
  • xd is a tiny tool to convert a binary file into a C array. This is from ​http://www.fourmilab.ch/xd/ and public domain.
  • makeself contains some scripts to create our self-extracting Linux installer.
  • yasm/ contains ​YASM, a rewrite of the venerable NASM assembler, a project released under the BSD license.

iasl == intel ACPI DSL compiler xd == irgendsoeintool um ein binaerfile in ein c array to konvertieren makeself == self extracting installer yasm == assembler mit intel-syntax