= 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 [http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/ 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