From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:17:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Patchwork oldest patches cleanup #5 (deadline January 19) In-Reply-To: <20140105162014.GA16066@free.fr> References: <20140105162014.GA16066@free.fr> Message-ID: <20140105171702.GC16066@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, Floris, All, On 2014-01-05 17:20 +0100, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly: > On 2014-01-05 17:01 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly: > > Here is the session 5 of the patchwork cleanup. [--SNIP--] > > [1/2] makebootfat: new package > > Floris Bos > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/213112 > > I'm not sure we need that one. We already have: > - host-dosfstools to generate (empty) fat filesystems in a image file; > - host-mtools to add files to a fat filesystem, and it works with > image files. It seems I've spoken a bit fast on that one. There's one thing this package provides that is not provided by dosfstools or mtools: an MBR bootcode. However, we already have syslinux, which does provide an MBR bootcode. It's currently not installed; it's just a matter of adding one more option to syslinux, to install its MBR bootcode. So, my previous position still stands: we already have the required packages; no need to duplicate what we already have. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'