From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:26:46 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] syslinux: add support for host-install In-Reply-To: <20110831101935.03bda653@skate> References: <1314770813-12307-1-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <1314770813-12307-2-git-send-email-arnout@mind.be> <20110831101935.03bda653@skate> Message-ID: <201109011826.47154.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wednesday 31 August 2011 10:19:35, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > You don't have the $(eval $(call GENTARGETS,boot,syslinux,host)) line > anymore, so the HOST_* variables are quite useless no ? This line was > present in your previous posting. Oops! Messed up rebase, and I didn't think it was necessary to test... Patch v3 coming up. > Also can you comment how this host package is used ? It isn't part of > the dependencies of any target package, so it doesn't seem to be used > anywhere (except by manually running "make host-syslinux"). Indeed, manually running "make host-syslinux" in the script that creates a USB image. I guess the host-grub support that was submitted a couple of days ago had the same purpose. > Not related to your patches directly, but could you elaborate a bit on > how syslinux is used in practice by giving an example usage. This would > explain a bit why a host version is needed, how to set up syslinux on > the target, etc. To build a rescue disk that rewrites the disk of the target device. The idea is that the whole thing can be sent as a zip file and the customer just has to unzip it to a USB stick and run syslinux (from Windows) and voila, he has a rescue USB stick. The compiled syslinux.exe is taken from the tar file for that. However, I also want to be able to create a rescue disk directly from buildroot, hence I want a working host-syslinux. FYI the make_rescue script is attached. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 31BB CF53 8660 6F88 345D 54CC A836 5879 20D7 CF43 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: make_rescue.sh Type: application/x-shellscript Size: 4508 bytes Desc: not available URL: