[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/9 v2] Bump and improve syslinux (branch yem/syslinux)

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Apr 29 16:49:12 UTC 2014


From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

Hello All!

Here are a few patches to bump and enhance syslinux:
  - patches 1..4: preparatory fixing and cleanup patches
  - patches 5..6: new pacakges, dependency of the new syslinux
  - patch   7   : actual syslinux bump
  - patches 8..9: new options to install new types of blobs

To be noted, the syslinx build system is, well, a bit weird, to say
the least. There is I hope extensive-enough information about this
in the bump-patch. Please pay it a bit of attention, it is really
convoluted, and would benefit from some in-depth review.

Thanks to Frank for his preliminary work on ucl and upx, and to
Thomas L. whose extlinux patch prompted me to look at syslinux. ;-)

Changes v1 -> v2:
  - explain the need for an ia32 compiler  (Arnout)
  - make the image selection a choice  (Arnout)
  - improve upx commit log  (Arnout)
  - typoes  (Arnout)
  - improve help entry for the mbr option

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.


The following changes since commit a72b73852568227ee948a380c720756fbbdbec46:

  upstream glibc 2.18/2.19 works fine with microblaze (2014-04-28 22:16:37 +0200)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://gitorious.org/buildroot/buildroot.git 

for you to fetch changes up to 8643aef1dfbf257e6cd7a0721d4cfd9f9e3a6dea:

  boot/syslinux: add an option to install an MBR blob (2014-04-29 18:41:59 +0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Frank Hunleth (2):
      package/ucl: new package
      package/upx: new package

Yann E. MORIN (7):
      boot/syslinux: needs an ia32-capable compiler
      boot/syslinux: prepare to install non-core images
      boot/syslinux: make the sub-options a choice
      boot/syslinux: rewrite options prompts
      boot/syslinux: bump version
      boot/syslinux: add option to install the EFI image
      boot/syslinux: add an option to install an MBR blob

 boot/syslinux/Config.in                            | 39 ++++++++++++++---
 .../syslinux-000-user-headers-from-sysroot.patch   | 37 ++++++++++++++++
 boot/syslinux/syslinux.mk                          | 50 ++++++++++++++++++----
 package/ucl/ucl.mk                                 | 12 ++++++
 package/upx/upx.mk                                 | 28 ++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 boot/syslinux/syslinux-000-user-headers-from-sysroot.patch
 create mode 100644 package/ucl/ucl.mk
 create mode 100644 package/upx/upx.mk

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