From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 22:34:19 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] syslinux: fix boot hang when host-gcc is 5.3 In-Reply-To: <1462118287-5017-1-git-send-email-fhunleth@troodon-software.com> References: <1462118287-5017-1-git-send-email-fhunleth@troodon-software.com> Message-ID: <20160501223419.0bff554f@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sun, 1 May 2016 11:58:07 -0400, Frank Hunleth wrote: > Syslinux uses the host version of gcc to build to bootloader. On systems > with gcc 5.3, this results in a bootloader that hangs. This issue has > been addressed in upstream syslinux, but an official release has not > been made yet. This commit adds the upstream patch to fix the issue. > > Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth > --- > .../0001-Fix-gcc-5-ALIGN-causing-Boot-error.patch | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 boot/syslinux/0001-Fix-gcc-5-ALIGN-causing-Boot-error.patch Applied to master, thanks. I've amended the commit log to indicate that it most likely fixes bug 8866. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com